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Science & Tech News tagged with galaxies

Spiral Galaxies: Exploring the Baffling Boxy Bulge
Science & Tech  (tags: Spiral, Galaxies, Boxy )

Nancy
- 4 days ago - sciencedaily.com
When targeting spiral galaxy bulges, astronomers often seek edge-on galaxies, as their bulges are more easily distinguishable from the disc.
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New Discovery Poses Challenge To Galaxy Formation Theories
Science & Tech  (tags: galaxies, space, universe, Discoveries, scientists, interesting )

Ingrid
- 223 days ago - spacedaily.com
A team led by an Indiana University astronomer has found a sample of massive galaxies with properties that suggest they may have formed relatively recently.
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Some Massive Galaxies May Be Relatively New: Discovery Challenges Galaxy Formation Theories
Science & Tech  (tags: science, space, universe, galaxies )

Ingrid
- 228 days ago - sciencedaily.com
A team led by an Indiana University astronomer has found a sample of massive galaxies with properties that suggest they may have formed relatively recently.
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Dramatically Backlit Dust In Giant Galaxy
Science & Tech  (tags: space, nasa, galaxies, clusters, investigation, interesting )

Ingrid
- 229 days ago - skynightly.com
A new Hubble image highlights striking swirling dust lanes and glittering globular clusters in oddball galaxy NGC 7049.
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Erratic Black Hole Regulates Itself
Science & Tech  (tags: black holes, galaxies, space, universe )

Ingrid
- 246 days ago - sciencedaily.com
New results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have made a major advance in explaining how a special class of black holes may shut off the high-speed jets they produce.
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A Curious Pair Of Galaxies
Science & Tech  (tags: galaxies, investigation, research, scientists )

Ingrid
- 254 days ago - spacedaily.com
The ESO Very Large Telescope has taken the best image ever of a strange and chaotic duo of interwoven galaxies. The images also contain some surprises - interlopers both far and near.
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Hearts Of Galaxies Close In For Cosmic Train Wreck
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Ingrid
- 255 days ago - spacedaily.com
A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope offers a rare view of an imminent collision between the cores of two merging galaxies, each powered by a black hole with millions of times the mass of the sun.
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Stardust Sheds New Light On Origin Of Elements Of Life
Science & Tech  (tags: galaxies, planets, star, life, interesting )

Ingrid
- 259 days ago - spacedaily.com
Using NASA's Spitzer Telescope, an international research team has found evidence that some stars in the center of the Milky Way galaxy have both carbon and oxygen in the dust that surrounds them, a rare combination in galactic dust.
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Elusive Binary Black Hole System Identified
Science & Tech  (tags: black holes, astronomy, galaxies, investigation, interesting )

Ingrid
- 264 days ago - spacedaily.com
Finding a needle in a haystack might be easy compared to finding two very similar black holes closely orbiting each other in a distant galaxy.
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Ice Age Aliens
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Ingrid
- 284 days ago - spacedaily.com
Could an alien astronomer have detected life on Earth during an ice age? Recent work has calculated how past climate extremes affected the light reflected from vegetation out into space.
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Black Holes Beat At The Hearts Of Galaxies
Science & Tech  (tags: black holes, galaxies, science, research, interesting )

Ingrid
- 373 days ago - spacedaily.com
The powerful black holes at the center of massive galaxies and galaxy clusters act as hearts to the systems, pumping energy out at regular intervals to regulate the growth of the black holes themselves, as well as star formation.
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First Detection Of Magnetic Field In Distant Galaxy Surprises Astronomers
Science & Tech  (tags: radio telescopes, universe, astronomy, galaxies, magnetic fields, space )

Ingrid
- 421 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Using a powerful radio telescope to peer into the early universe, a team of California astronomers has obtained the first direct measurement of a nascent galaxy's magnetic field as it appeared 6.5 billion years ago.
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Wild, Hidden Cousin Of SN 1987A: Powerful Supernova Caught By Web Of Telescopes
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, discovery, stars, galaxies, study, space )

Ingrid
- 426 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Astronomers may have discovered the relative of a freakishly behaving exploding star once thought to be the only one of its kind.
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Immigrant Sun: Our Star Could Be Far From Where It Started In Milky Way
Science & Tech  (tags: stars, galaxies, Astrophysics, research )

Ingrid
- 438 days ago - sciencedaily.com
A long-standing scientific belief holds that stars tend to hang out in the same general part of a galaxy where they originally formed.
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'Cosmic Ghost' Discovered By Volunteer Astronomer In Archived Images Of Night Sky
Science & Tech  (tags: Astrophysics, galaxies, discovery )

Ingrid
- 479 days ago - sciencedaily.com
When Yale astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski and his colleagues at Oxford University enlisted public support in cataloging galaxies, they never envisioned the strange object Hanny van Arkel found in archived images of the night sky.
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