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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. Alien Star Clusters Are Invading the Milky Way

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    ... galaxy has an estimated 160 globular clusters of which one quarter are thought to be ‘alien’. Image: NASA / The Hubble Heritage Team / STScI / AURA. Click for hi-resolution version. We're being ... Tuesday, 23 February 2010

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

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    ... 10, if their eyes were sensitive to radio waves. The two bright (yellow) spots are Cygnus A – a giant radio galaxy powered by a supermassive black hole – near the center of the image, and ... Sunday, 21 February 2010

16. 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

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

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    ... small, ancient galaxies that has waited 10 billion years to come together. These "late bloomers" are on their way to building a large elliptical galaxy. ... Thursday, 18 February 2010

18. Astronomical Eye Candy from WISE First Images

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    The immense Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 or simply M31, is captured in full in this new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA The ... Wednesday, 17 February 2010

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

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    The Fornax dwarf galaxy is one of our Milky Way’s neighbouring dwarf galaxies. The Milky Way is, like all large galaxies, thought to have formed from smaller galaxies in the early days of the Universe. ... Wednesday, 17 February 2010

20. Dark Matter Detector Heading to the ISS This Summer

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    ... other information from cosmic radiation sources such as stars and galaxies millions of light years from our home galaxy. (...) Read the rest of Dark Matter Detector Heading to the ISS This Summer (344 ... Tuesday, 16 February 2010