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Is the Milky Way doomed to be destroyed by galactic bombardment? Probably not, study says

Is the Milky Way doomed to be destroyed by galactic bombardment? Probably not

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- As scientists attempt to learn more about how galaxies evolve, an open question has been whether collisions with our dwarf galactic neighbors will one day tear apart the disk of the Milky ...


XMM-Newton measures speedy spin of rare celestial object

XMM-Newton measures speedy spin of rare celestial object

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created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- XMM-Newton has caught the fading glow of a tiny celestial object, revealing its rotation rate for the first time. The new information confirms this particular object as one of an extremely ...


Zeroing in on Hubble's constant

Zeroing in on Hubble's constant

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the early part of the 20th Century, Carnegie astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding. The rate of expansion is known as the Hubble constant. Its precise value ...





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Hyperfast Star Proven to be Alien

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 28, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (46) | comments 1

A young star is speeding away from the Milky Way so fast that astronomers have been puzzled by where it came from; based on its young age it has traveled too far to have come from our galaxy.


Magellanic Clouds May Be Just Passing Through

Magellanic Clouds May Be Just Passing Through

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created Jan 09, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are two of the Milky Way's closest neighboring galaxies. Both are visible only in the southern hemisphere. By studying their orbits, astronomers ...


The Magellanic Clouds Are First-Time Visitors

Magellanic clouds: Single measurement throws out everything we thought we knew

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created Sep 17, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (64) | comments 0

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are two of the Milky Way's closest neighboring galaxies. A stunning sight in the southern hemisphere, they were named after Ferdinand Magellan, ...


Hubble Observes Infant Stars in Nearby Galaxy

Hubble Observes Infant Stars in Nearby Galaxy

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created Jan 08, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

This new image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope depicts bright, blue, newly formed stars that are blowing a cavity in the center of a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud.


Supernova remnants dance in the LMC

Supernova Remnants Dance in the LMC

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created Jan 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

The Gemini South Multi-Object Spectograph (GMOS) recently captured a dramatic image of a vast cloud complex named DEM L316 located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The peanut-shaped nebula appears to be a single ...


Magellanic gemstones in the southern sky

Hubble Captures Magellanic Gemstones In The Southern Sky

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created Apr 18, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed images to date of the open star clusters NGC 265 and NGC 290 in the Small Magellanic Cloud.


Close-up of a dying heavyweight

Close-up of a dying heavyweight

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created May 27, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 0

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn and European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching near Munich have for the first time taken a close-up of an individual ...


An Oxygen Factory in a Nearby Galaxy

An Oxygen Factory in a Nearby Galaxy

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created Mar 17, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 0

This Chandra X-ray Observatory image shows the debris of a massive star explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy about 160,000 light years from Earth.


Revealing the mysteries of galaxy formation

Revealing the mysteries of galaxy formation

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created Nov 01, 2006 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 0

As the AKARI satellite nears completion of its All Sky Survey, it has released two stunning images of the Large Magellanic Cloud. AKARI is an infrared astronomical satellite from the Japan Aerospace Exploration ...


Sun Microsystems to offer 'public cloud' service

Technology / Software

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Taking a cue from Amazon.com, Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to launch its own "public cloud" service, which will let everyone from big-time corporations to dorm-room entrepreneurs run their businesses on Sun's computers ...



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