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Rare 'Star-Making Machine' Found in Distant Universe

Rare 'Star-Making Machine' Found in Distant Universe

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created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 3

Astronomers have uncovered an extreme stellar machine -- a galaxy in the very remote universe pumping out stars at a surprising rate of up to 4,000 per year. In comparison, our own Milky Way galaxy turns out ...





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Stripped down: Hubble highlights 2 galaxies that are losing it

Stripped down: Hubble highlights two galaxies that are losing it

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created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ram pressure is the drag force that results when something moves through a fluid -- much like the wind you feel in your face when bicycling, even on a still day -- and occurs in this context ...


No strain for Andromeda: Galaxy is cosmic cannibal (AP)

No strain for Andromeda: Galaxy is cosmic cannibal (w/ Video)

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created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A huge galaxy neighbouring our own Milky Way appears to have expanded by "digesting" smaller galaxies nearby, a new study has shown.


Black Hole Pumps Iron

Black Hole Pumps Iron

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created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- This composite image of the Hydra A galaxy cluster shows 10-million- degree gas observed by Chandra in blue and jets of radio emission observed by the Very Large Array in pink. Optical data ...


Rapid star formation spotted in 'stellar nurseries' of infant galaxies

Rapid star formation spotted in 'stellar nurseries' of infant galaxies

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created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

The Universe's infant galaxies enjoyed rapid growth spurts forming stars like our sun at a rate of up to 50 stars a year, according to scientists at Durham University.


NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy

NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy

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created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged a wild creature of the dark -- a coiled galaxy with an eye-like object at its center.


Mysterious X-rays from a Nearby Galaxy

Mysterious X-rays from a Nearby Galaxy

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created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- The nucleus of an active galaxy, an AGN, contains a massive black hole that is vigorously accreting material. In the process it typically ejects jets of particles and radiates brightly at ...


The Milky Way's tiny but tough galactic neighbor

The Milky Way's tiny but tough galactic neighbor

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created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 1

In the new ESO image, Barnard's Galaxy glows beneath a sea of foreground stars in the direction of the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer). At the relatively close distance of about 1.6 million light-years, ...


Chandra reviews black hole musical: Epic but off-key

Chandra reviews black hole musical: Epic but off-key

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created Oct 05, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 0

A gigantic sonic boom generated by a supermassive black hole has been found with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, along with evidence for a cacophony of deep sound.


Dark Matter in a Galaxy

Dark Matter in a Galaxy

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created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (20) | comments 19

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stars, the most familiar objects in the night sky, make up only a tiny percentage of the total amount of matter in the universe -- about 2%.


Baffling boxy bulge

NGC 4710 galaxy: Baffling boxy bulge (w/ Video)

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created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as many people are surprised to find themselves packing on unexplained weight around the middle, astronomers find the evolution of bulges in the centres of spiral galaxies puzzling. A ...



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