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1. This is Getting Boring: General Relativity Passes Yet another Big Test!

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   Princeton University scientists (from left) Reinabelle Reyes, James Gunn and Rachel Mandelbaum led a team that analyzed more than 70,000 galaxies and demonstrated that the universe - at least up to a distance ... Thursday, 18 March 2010

2. Astronomers Observe Fast Growing Primitive Black Holes

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   Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Mar 18, 2010 - Quasars are active and very powerful black holes at the centre of distant galaxies. The black holes are extremely massive weighing between 100 million and 10 ... Wednesday, 17 March 2010

3. NASA's Spitzer Unearths Primitive Black Holes

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   ... NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, will provide a better understanding of the roots of our universe, and how the very first black holes, galaxies and stars came to be. ... Wednesday, 17 March 2010

4. New Hubble Project Will Survey Beginnings of Cosmic Time

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   ...  Using an unprecedented amount of time of the famed space telescope, the Hubble Multi-Cycle Treasury Program will image more than 250,000 distant galaxies to provide the first comprehensive view of the ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

5. The Wizard Nebula

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   ... most luminous galaxies and some of the darkest near-Earth asteroids and comets. Its vast catalogs will help answer fundamental questions about the origins of planets, stars and galaxies. WISE joins two ... Monday, 15 March 2010

6. Galaxy Study Validates General Relativity On Cosmic Scale

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   Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2010 - An analysis of more than 70,000 galaxies by University of California, Berkeley, University of Zurich and Princeton University physicists demonstrates that the universe ... Wednesday, 10 March 2010

7. A Mosaic of Cassiopeia

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   ... Nebula, a portion of which is seen at the right of the image. IC 1805 is more than 6,000 light-years from Earth. Also visible in this image are two nearby galaxies, Maffei 1 and Maffei 2. In visible light ... Monday, 08 March 2010

8. Bully Galaxy Rules The Neighborhood

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   ... this term to emphasise the isolated nature of these galaxies. However, are they like fossils - the last remnants of a once active community - or is it more sinister than that? Did ESO 306-17 gobble up ... Monday, 08 March 2010

9. How Black Holes May Shape Galaxies

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   ... This discovery indicates that "average" supermassive black holes may play an important role in the evolution of the galaxies in which they reside. ... Monday, 08 March 2010

10. Taking The Pulse Of A Supernova – NGC 4490

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    NGC 4490/4485 – T. Grossman, D. Hager and R. Johnson Way out yonder some 40 to 50 million light years away in the constellation of Canes Venetici is a pair of interacting galaxies sometimes referred ... Sunday, 07 March 2010

11. Winds of Change

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    This is a composite image of NGC 1068, one of the nearest and brightest galaxies containing a rapidly growing supermassive black hole. The X-ray images and spectra obtained using Chandra's High Energy ... Thursday, 04 March 2010

12. 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

13. Astronomically Large Lenses Measure Age And Size Of Universe

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    Stanford CA (SPX) Mar 03, 2010 - Using entire galaxies as lenses to look at other galaxies, researchers have a newly precise way to measure the size and age of the universe and how rapidly it is expanding, ... Tuesday, 02 March 2010

14. Using Gravitational Lensing to Measure Age and Size of Universe

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    ... lensing! Astronomers have used it to measure the shape of stars, look for exoplanets, and measure dark matter in distant galaxies. Now its being used to measure the age and size of the Universe. Researchers ... Tuesday, 02 March 2010

15. This Week's astro-ph Preprints: Jean Tate's Best Pick

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    ... BSc. Oh, and also because Don Mizuno and co-authors may have found two, quite local, spiral galaxies that no one has ever seen before! (...) Read the rest of This Week's astro-ph Preprints: Jean ... Thursday, 25 February 2010

16. The Possibility of a Brand New World

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    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

17. Alien Invaders Pack The Milky Way

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    Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Feb 24, 2010 - Around a quarter of the globular star clusters in our Milky Way galaxy are invaders from other galaxies, according to a team of scientists from Swinburne University ... Tuesday, 23 February 2010

18. Better Late Than Never: Dwarf Galaxies Finally Come Together

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    ... Space Telescope, Spitzer, Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), and Swift show that there are 'living galaxy fossils' in our own backyard! (...) Read the rest of Better Late Than Never: Dwarf Galaxies ... Tuesday, 23 February 2010

19. Alien Star Clusters Are Invading the Milky Way

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    ... invaded! About one-fourth of the star clusters in our galaxy are actually invaders from other galaxies, according to a new paper. Research from a team of scientists from Swinburne University of Technology ... Tuesday, 23 February 2010

20. Dark Matter in Distant Galaxy Groups Mapped for the First Time

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    X-ray emission in the COSMOS field (XMM-Newton/ESA) Galaxy density in the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) field, with colors representing the redshift of the galaxies, ranging from redshift of 0.2 ... Sunday, 21 February 2010