News tagged with cluster gas

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

Astronomers find bounty of failed stars

A University of Toronto-led team of astronomers has discovered over two dozen new free-floating brown dwarfs, including a lightweight youngster only about six times heftier than Jupiter, that reside in two ...

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created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5

'Dead' galaxies are not so dead after all

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Michigan astronomers examined old galaxies and were surprised to discover that they are still making new stars. The results provide insights into how galaxies evolve with time.

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created May 30, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

New arm discovered in outer edge of the Milky Way Galaxy

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a surprising twist, if you will, Thomas Dame and Patrick Thaddeus, both of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, have put forth in a paper to be published in an upcoming issue ...

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created May 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 12 | with audio podcast report

The Chandra Carina complex project

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Great Nebula in the constellation of Carina is a massive star-forming complex located about 7.5 thousand light-years away. The main star in the complex, Eta Carinae, shines brightly in ...

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created May 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Suzaku shows clearest picture yet of Perseus Galaxy Cluster

(PhysOrg.com) -- X-ray observations made by the Suzaku observatory provide the clearest picture to date of the size, mass and chemical content of a nearby cluster of galaxies. The study also provides the first ...

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created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

The universe's most massive stars can form in near isolation, new study finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- New observations by University of Michigan astronomers add weight to the theory that the most massive stars in the universe could form essentially anywhere, including in near isolation; they ...

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created Dec 21, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Light, wind and fire: Beautiful image of a cosmic sculpture (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today ESO has released a dramatic new image of NGC 346, the brightest star-forming region in our neighbouring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, 210 000 light-years away towards the constellation ...

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created Feb 24, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Galaxy Cluster Abell 3627: Two Tails to Tell

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two spectacular tails of X-ray emission has been seen trailing behind a galaxy using the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

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created Jan 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers explain the activity of black holes at the centre of galaxy clusters

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers at the University of Bonn have clarified the connection between black holes at the centre of galaxy clusters and surrounding gas, which serves them as "food". The scientists have ...

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created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (15) | comments 27

Turbulence responsible for black holes' balancing act

We live in a hierarchical Universe where small structures join into larger ones. Earth is a planet in our Solar System, the Solar System resides in the Milky Way Galaxy, and galaxies combine into groups and ...

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created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 15

Suzaku snaps first complete X-ray view of a galaxy cluster

The joint Japan-U.S. Suzaku mission is providing new insight into how assemblages of thousands of galaxies pull themselves together. For the first time, Suzaku has detected X-ray-emitting gas at a cluster's ...

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created May 28, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 3