News tagged with colliding galaxies
'Cosmic fruit machine' matches collisions
Nov 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new website will give everyone the chance to contribute to science by playing a 'cosmic fruit machine' and compare images of colliding galaxies with millions of simulated images of galactic ...
Research Team Discover New Tidal Debris from Colliding Galaxies
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Astronomers have discovered new tidal debris stripped away from colliding galaxies. The research will be being presented during a press conference at the 214th annual American Astronomical Society meeting ...
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Antennae Galaxies
May 19, 2008 |
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This image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of the collision, billions of stars will be formed. The brightest and most compact of these star ...
The dark matter of the universe has a long lifetime
Oct 01, 2007 |
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New research from the Niels Bohr Institute presents new information that adds another piece of knowledge to the jigsaw puzzle of the dark mystery of the universe – dark matter. The research has just been published ...
Colliding galaxies make love, not war
Oct 17, 2006 |
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A new Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars. The ...
Hubble celebrates 19th anniversary with fountain of youth
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Over the past 19 years Hubble has taken dozens of exotic pictures of galaxies going "bump in the night" as they collide with each other and have a variety of close encounters of the galactic kind. Just when ...
Another piece in the dark matter puzzle
Oct 05, 2007 |
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Most scientists agree that most of the matter in the universe is dark. Dark matter, which is undetectable through direct observation, can only be inferred because of its effects on the matter that we can see.
Compact galaxies in early universe pack a big punch
Apr 29, 2008 |
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Imagine receiving an announcement touting the birth of a baby 50 centimetres long and weighing 80 kilograms. After reading this puzzling message, you would immediately think the baby’s weight was a misprint.
Active galaxies are different near and far
Jan 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An ongoing X-ray survey undertaken by NASA's Swift spacecraft is revealing differences between nearby active galaxies and those located about halfway across the universe. Understanding these ...
Hubble sees the graceful dance of 2 interacting galaxies
Oct 30, 2007 |
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A pair of galaxies, known collectively as Arp 87, is one of hundreds of interacting and merging galaxies known in our nearby Universe. Arp 87 was originally discovered and catalogued by astronomer Halton Arp ...
Astronomers Spot Brightest Galaxies in the Distant Universe
Aug 09, 2007 |
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By combining the capabilities of several telescopes, astronomers have spotted extremely bright galaxies hiding in the distant, young universe. The newfound galaxies are intrinsically bright due to their large ...
When galaxies collide: Supercomputers reproduce fluid motions of cosmic duet
May 31, 2006 |
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A wispy collection of atoms and molecules fuels the vast cosmic maelstroms produced by colliding galaxies and merging supermassive black holes, according to some of the most advanced supercomputer simulations ever conducted ...
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