A Stellar Dance Lasting 10 Billion Years
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope offers this delightful view of the crowded stellar encampment called Messier 68, a spherical, star-filled region of space known as a…
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XMM Newton Reveals the Beating Heart of a Newborn Star
The violent behaviour of a young Sun-like star spinning at high speed and spewing out super-hot plasma has been revealed thanks to the combined X-ray vision…
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Flame Nebula Burns Brightly in New WISE Image
A new image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows the candle-like Flame nebula lighting up a cavern of dust. The Flame nebula is…
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Ancient Arc of Light Spotted by Hubble and Spitzer
Seeing is believing, except when you don’t believe what you see. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found a puzzling arc of light behind an…
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Most Quasars Snack Rather Than Binge Feed
Black holes in the early universe needed a few snacks rather than one giant meal to fuel their quasars and help them grow, according to observations…
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New evidence from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory challenges prevailing ideas about how black holes grow in the centers of galaxies. Astronomers long have thought that a…
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NASA’s WISE Finds Only a Handful of Brown Dwarf Stars in Our Celestial Backyard
Astronomers are getting to know the neighbors better. Our sun resides within a spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy about two-thirds of the way out…
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The First Objects in the Universe Burned Furiously
The faint, lumpy glow given off by the very first objects in the universe may have been detected with the best precision yet, using NASA’s Spitzer…
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Massive Black Hole Gets Thrown Out of Home Galaxy
Astronomers have found strong evidence that a massive black hole is being ejected from its host galaxy at a speed of several million miles per hour.…
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Pillars and Bubbles in the Carina Nebula
Giant bubbles, towering pillars and cascading clouds of dust and gas fill the star-forming nursery of the Carina Nebula seen here in a stunning new view…
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