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1. New Planck Images Reveal Large-Scale Structure In The Milky Way

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   Paris, France (ESA) Mar 18, 2010 - New images from ESA's Planck mission reveal details of the structure of the coldest regions in our Galaxy. Filamentary clouds predominate, connecting the largest to ... Wednesday, 17 March 2010

2. Planck Sees Tapestry Of Cold Dust

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   Paris, France (ESA) Mar 18, 2010 - Giant filaments of cold dust stretching through our Galaxy are revealed in a new image from ESA's Planck satellite. Analysing these structures could help to determine ... Wednesday, 17 March 2010

3. Spitzer Spies Earliest Black Holes

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   This artist's conception illustrates one of the most primitive supermassive black holes known (central black dot) at the core of a young, star-rich galaxy. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The Spitzer ... Wednesday, 17 March 2010

4. Planck Reveals Giant Dust Structures in our Local Neighborhood

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   ... stretching through our galaxy. The image spans about 50 degrees of the sky, showing our local neighborhood within approximately 500 light-years of the Sun. “What makes these structures have these particular ... Wednesday, 17 March 2010

5. New Hubble Treasury Project To Survey First Third Of Cosmic Time

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   Boston MA (SPX) Mar 17, 2010 - Astronomers will peer deep into the universe in five directions to document the early history of star formation and galaxy evolution in an ambitious new project requiring ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

6. Beautiful Cosmic Barbeque Pit

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   ... galaxy. Berkeley 59 and NGC 7822 are located in the constellation of Cepheus at a distance of about 3,300 light-years from Earth. PAHs are interesting because they are a candidate molecule linked to the ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

7. New Hubble Project Will Survey Beginnings of Cosmic Time

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   ...  An ambitious new project using the Hubble Space Telescope will allow astronomers to peer deep into the universe in five directions to document the early history of star formation and galaxy evolution. ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

8. The Wizard Nebula

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   ... is located in the constellation Cepheus about 7,000 light-years from Earth within the Milky Way Galaxy. The star cluster is embedded in a nebula, which spans some 110 light-years. The stars of NGC 7380 ... Monday, 15 March 2010

9. 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

10. Mysterious Cosmic Dark Flow Tracked Deeper Into Universe

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    Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 11, 2010 - Distant galaxy clusters mysteriously stream at a million miles per hour along a path roughly centered on the southern constellations Centaurus and Hydra. A new study ... Wednesday, 10 March 2010

11. Catastrophic Event Halted Star Birth In Early Galaxy

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    London, UK (SPX) Mar 11, 2010 - Scientists have found evidence of a catastrophic event they believe was responsible for halting the birth of stars in a galaxy in the early Universe. They report their ... Wednesday, 10 March 2010

12. Massive Repeated Explosions Halted Star Formation in Early Universe

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    An artist's representation showing outflow from a supermassive black hole inside the middle of a galaxy. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss Scientists have found evidence of a catastrophic event they believe was ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

13. A Mosaic of Cassiopeia

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    This mosaic of images from the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explore, or WISE, in the constellation of Cassiopeia contains a large star-forming nebula within the Milky Way Galaxy, called IC 1805 or the Heart ... Monday, 08 March 2010

14. Bully Galaxy Rules The Neighborhood

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    Paris, France (ESA) Mar 08, 2010 - Located half a billion light-years from Earth, ESO 306-17, is a large, bright elliptical galaxy in the southern sky of a type known as a fossil group. Astronomers use ... Monday, 08 March 2010

15. How Black Holes May Shape Galaxies

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    Boston MA (SPX) Mar 09, 2010 - New observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory provide evidence for powerful winds blowing away from the vicinity of a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy. ... Monday, 08 March 2010

16. Winds of Change

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    ... of its host galaxy. It has long been suspected that material blown away from a black hole can affect its environment, but a key question has been whether such "black hole blowback" typically delivers enough ... Thursday, 04 March 2010

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

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    A newly discovered red giant star is a relic from the early universe — a star that may have been among the second generation of stars to form after the Big Bang. Located in the dwarf galaxy Sculptor ... Wednesday, 03 March 2010

18. 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

19. Beautiful Image Of A Cosmic Sculpture

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    Paris, France (SPX) Feb 25, 2010 - ESO has released a dramatic new image of NGC 346, the brightest star-forming region in our neighbouring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, 210 000 light-years away ... Wednesday, 24 February 2010

20. 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