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1. Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: March 5-7, 2010

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Are you ready for the weekend? Then let's spend it "stellar" as we take a look at a great series of open galactic star clusters. Gathering a few photons ... Friday, 05 March 2010

2. Second-Generation Star Supports Cannibal Theory of Milky Way

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   ... to its current size by swallowing dwarf galaxies and other galactic building blocks. (...) Read the rest of Second-Generation Star Supports Cannibal Theory of Milky Way (611 words) © nancy for ... Wednesday, 03 March 2010

3. The Possibility of a Brand New World

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   Several of the dwarf galaxies of in the Hickson Compact Group 31 are slowly merging. Will the result of these galactic collisions be one big elliptical galaxy? Most assuredly. The pictured galaxies of ... Wednesday, 24 February 2010

4. All-Sky Radio Image in 60 Seconds, No Moving Parts

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   ... Galactic center in the South, toward the western horizon in this image. "We made this image with a single 60 second "exposure" at 120 MHz using our high-band LOFAR field in Effelsberg", ... Sunday, 21 February 2010

5. Jurassic Space: Ancient Galaxies Come Together After Billions Of Years

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   Baltimore, MD (SPX) Feb 19, 2010 - Imagine finding a living dinosaur in your backyard. Astronomers have found the astronomical equivalent of prehistoric life in our intergalactic backyard: a group of ... Thursday, 18 February 2010

6. Missing Early Stars Found, With No Place Left to Hide

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   ... have uncovered an important astrophysical puzzle concerning the oldest stars in our galactic neighborhood — which is crucial for our understanding of the earliest stars in the Universe. . “We have, in ... Wednesday, 17 February 2010

7. Supermassive Black Holes Spinning Backwards Create Death Ray Jets?

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   Centaurus A. Image credit: NASA Why do some of the supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei create back-to-back jets that can vaporize entire solar systems, while others have no jets at all? ... Monday, 15 February 2010

8. Seven-Year WMAP Results: No, They’re NOT Anomalies

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... are few. “Human eyes and brains are excellent at detecting visual patterns, but poor at assessing probabilities. Features seen in the WMAP maps, such as the large Cold Spot I near the Galactic center ... Tuesday, 09 February 2010

9. Mars, Messier 44 and the Ecliptic Plane…

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... because the rotational axes are not parallel to the orbital axes. Add to that the galactic plane and set everything spinning. If you think that's confusing, then just imagine the ecliptic being ... Saturday, 06 February 2010

10. An Infrared View of the Galaxy

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    ... 300 light-years. This sweeping panorama is the sharpest infrared picture ever made of the Galactic core and offers a laboratory for how massive stars form and influence their environment in the often violent ... Monday, 01 February 2010

11. "Horsefeathers" – NGC 7770/71 Galaxy Group by Ken Crawford

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... galaxy NGC 7770 to the south and edge-on NGC 7771A to the west connected to magnificent spiral NGC 7769. But horsefeathers doesn't mean this little clump of galactic partners is nonsense…  ... Saturday, 30 January 2010

12. Extra-Galactic Whopper Black Hole Breaks Distance Record

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    ...  “This is the most distant stellar-mass black hole ever weighed, and it’s the first one we’ve seen outside our own galactic neighborhood, the Local Group,” said Paul Crowther, from the University of Sheffield. ... Tuesday, 26 January 2010

13. Shining A Light On Missing Ordinary Matter

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    College Park MD (SPX) Jan 07, 2010 - An international team of scientists, led by University of Maryland astronomer Stacy McGaugh, has found that individual galactic objects have less ordinary matter, ... Wednesday, 06 January 2010

14. Split Personalities Of A Galactic Size

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    Garching, Germany (SPX) Jan 07, 2010 - A team of astronomers led by Niv Drory of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany), Kevin Bundy (University of California, Berkeley), ... Wednesday, 06 January 2010

15. Astronomers Map The Shape Of Galactic Dark Matter

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    Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2010 - The halo of dark matter surrounding our Milky Way Galaxy is shaped something like a gigantic, flattened cosmic beachball, astronomers has announced. The report is ... Wednesday, 06 January 2010

16. Giant Intergalactic Gas Stream Longer Than Thought

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    ... revelations provide a fresh insight on what started the gaseous intergalactic streamer. ... Tuesday, 05 January 2010

17. Intergalactic Connection is Older, Longer than Thought

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    ... of our closest galactic neighbors. New observations of the stream have helped to revise its age and extent, and show it to be longer and much older than previous estimates.(...) Read the rest of Intergalactic ... Monday, 04 January 2010

18. Galactic Building Blocks

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    The current view of galactic formation is that galaxies form from a "bottom-up" method. In this picture, small dwarf galaxies, full of metal poor stars, were attracted by dark matter halos ... Tuesday, 29 December 2009

19. A "Polar Ring" For Christmas…

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    ... in ring formations nearly perpendicular to the plane of a flat galactic disk. What caused it? Read on… (...) Read the rest of A "Polar Ring" For Christmas… (620 words) © ... Thursday, 17 December 2009

20. Hubble's Festive View of a Grand Star-Forming Region

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... the most detailed view of the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood. ... Tuesday, 15 December 2009