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Spectacular Hubble View of Centaurus A

(PhysOrg.com) -- The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a close-up view of the galaxy Centaurus A. Hubble’s out-of-this-world location and world-class Wide Field Camera 3 instrument reveal a ...

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created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Black hole outflows from Centaurus A detected with APEX

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have a new insight into the active galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128), as the jets and lobes emanating from the central black hole have been imaged at submillimetre wavelengths for ...

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created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 3




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Do black holes help stars form?

(PhysOrg.com) -- The center of just about every galaxy is thought to host a black hole, some with masses of thousands of millions of Suns and consequently strong gravitational pulls that disrupt material around ...

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created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Repulsive gravity as an alternative to dark energy (Part 1: In voids)

(PhysOrg.com) -- When scientists discovered in 1998 that the Universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, the possibility that dark energy could explain the observation was intriguing. But because there ...

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created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (49) | comments 118 | with audio podcast report

Gaseous ring around young star raises questions

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have detected a mysterious ring of carbon monoxide gas around the young star V1052 Cen, which is about 700 light years away in the southern constellation Centaurus. The ring is ...

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created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 34 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover a Saturn-like ring system eclipsing a sun-like star

A team of astrophysicists from the University of Rochester and Europe has discovered a ring system in the constellation Centaurus that invites comparisons to Saturn.

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created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Image: Active Galaxy Centaurus A

(PhysOrg.com) -- Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A.

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created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Some nearby young stars may be much older than previously thought

Low in the south in the summer sky shines the constellation Scorpius and the bright, red supergiant star Antares. Many of the brightest stars in Scorpius, and hundreds of its fainter stars, are among the youngest stars found ...

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created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Ultra-compact dwarf galaxies are bright star clusters

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing a new statistical study of the so-called 'ultra-compact dwarf galaxies' (UCDs), which are still mysterious objects. A team of astronomers has invest ...

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created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Clearing the cosmic fog of the early universe: Massive stars may be responsible

The space between the galaxies wasn't always transparent. In the earliest times, it was an opaque, dense fog. How it cleared is an important question in astronomy. New observational evidence from the University ...

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created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

An angry bird in the sky

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope reveals the Lambda Centauri Nebula, a cloud of glowing hydrogen and newborn stars in the constellation of Centaurus ...

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created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Fermi's latest gamma-ray census highlights cosmic mysteries

(PhysOrg.com) -- Every three hours, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope scans the entire sky and deepens its portrait of the high-energy universe. Every year, the satellite's scientists reanalyze all of ...

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created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 18 | with audio podcast


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