News tagged with galactic bulge

Astronomy without a telescope - black hole evolution

While only observable by inference, the existence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centre of most – if not all – galaxies remains a compelling theory supported by a range of indirect observational ...

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created Nov 29, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 8

Galactic Dust Bunnies Found to Contain Carbon After All

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers have found evidence suggesting that stars rich in carbon complex molecules may form at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

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created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0




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New instrument peers through the heart of the Milky Way

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomy has a powerful new tool to probe the structure of our galaxy. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) spectrograph is the newest instrument deployed by ...

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created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New insight into the bar in the center of the Milky Way

(PhysOrg.com) -- It sounds like the start of a bad joke: do you know about the bar in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy? Astronomers first recognized almost 80 years ago that the Milky Way Galaxy, around ...

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created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Rocky, low-mass planet discovered by microlensing

In planet hunting today, there seems to be one burning question that nearly every new article published touches on: Where did these planets come from?

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created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Twisted ring of gas orbits galactic center

The Herschel Space Observatory scanned the center of the galaxy in far-infrared and found a cool (in all senses of the word) twisting ring of rapidly orbiting gas clouds. The ring is estimated to have dimensions ...

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created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Hubble finds rare 'blue straggler' stars in Milky Way's hub

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found a rare class of oddball stars called blue stragglers in the hub of our Milky Way, the first detected within our galaxy's bulge.

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created May 26, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

A galactic rose highlights Hubble's 21st anniversary

(PhysOrg.com) -- In celebration of the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s deployment into space, astronomers pointed Hubble at an especially photogenic group of interacting galaxies called ...

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created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Astronomers identify thick disc of older stars in nearby Andromeda galaxy

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of astronomers has identified for the first time a thick stellar disc in the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest large spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way.

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created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

A picture-perfect pure-disc galaxy (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The bright galaxy NGC 3621, captured here using the Wide Field Imager on the 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, appears to be a fine example of a classical spiral. ...

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created Feb 02, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Astronomers release the largest color image of the sky ever made

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III (SDSS-III) is releasing the largest digital color image of the sky ever made, and it’s free to all. The image has been put together over the last ...

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created Jan 11, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Surprise: Dwarf galaxy harbors supermassive black hole

(PhysOrg.com) -- The surprising discovery of a supermassive black hole in a small nearby galaxy has given astronomers a tantalizing look at how black holes and galaxies may have grown in the early history ...

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created Jan 09, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 9 | with audio podcast


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