News tagged with foreground galaxy
Cosmic eye sheds light on early galaxy formation
Oct 08, 2008 |
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A Cosmic Eye has given scientists a unique insight into galaxy formation in the very early Universe. Using gravity from a foreground galaxy as a zoom lens the team was able to see a young star-forming galaxy ...
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Hubble Sees Double Einstein Ring
Jan 10, 2008 |
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring pattern is ...
Trick of Nature Allows Hubble and Keck to Find Tiny Galaxy
Oct 05, 2007 |
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A team of astronomers at the University of California at Santa Barbara report that they have resolved a dwarf galaxy 6 billion light-years away. Weighing only 1/100 as much as our Milky Way Galaxy, the dwarf ...
Swift satellite images a galaxy ablaze with starbirth
Feb 26, 2008 |
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Combining 39 individual frames taken over 11 hours of exposure time, NASA astronomers have created this ultraviolet mosaic of the nearby "Triangulum Galaxy." "This is the most detailed ultraviolet image of ...
Hubble Discovers 67 New Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies in the Distant Universe
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have compiled a large catalog of gravitational lenses in the distant universe. The catalog contains 67 new gravitationally lensed galaxy images found around ...
The Milky Way's tiny but tough galactic neighbor
Oct 14, 2009 |
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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, ...
A Galaxy Collision in Action
Jul 09, 2009 |
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This beautiful image gives a new look at Stephan's Quintet, a compact group of galaxies discovered about 130 years ago and located about 280 million light years from Earth. The curved, light blue ridge running ...
Astronomers dissect a supermassive black hole with natural magnifying glasses
Dec 12, 2008 |
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The team of astronomers from Europe and the US studied the "Einstein Cross", a famous cosmic mirage. This cross-shaped configuration consists of four images of a single very distant source. The multiple images ...
Twin Star Explosions Fascinate Astronomers
Nov 20, 2006 |
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Scientists using NASA's Swift satellite stumbled upon a rare sight, two supernovas side by side in one galaxy. Large galaxies typically play host to three supernovas per century.
Hubble's view of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672
Apr 03, 2007 |
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NGC 1672, visible from the Southern Hemisphere, is seen almost face on and shows regions of intense star formation. The greatest concentrations of star formation are found in the so-called starburst regions ...
Milky Way seen to be a galactic cannibal
Apr 07, 2008 |
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A stream of debris across the sky is the result of intergalactic cannibalism, researchers from The Australian National University conclude, and it is the not the first time our galaxy has had one of its neighbours for breakfast.
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