Searching for the Cosmic Seeds That Black Holes Sprout From
How do you grow a supermassive black hole that is a million to a billion times the mass of our sun? Astronomers do not know the…
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Massive Stars and X-Ray Bubbles in the Turbulent Clouds of a Star-Forming Region
Massive stars are born in tumultuous clouds of gas and dust. They lead a brief but intense life, blowing powerful winds of particles and radiation that…
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A 360-Degree View of Galaxy Brought to You by Spitzer
Touring the Milky Way now is as easy as clicking a button with NASA’s new zoomable, 360-degree mosaic presented Thursday at the TEDActive 2014 Conference in…
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Rapidly Spinning Supermassive Black Hole Spotted by Space Telescopes
Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) XMM-Newton to show a supermassive black hole six billion light years from Earth…
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Star-City Leaks as It Plunges Through the Norma Galaxy Cluster
Our spiral-shaped Milky Way galaxy lives in a comparatively quiet backwater region of the universe. This is not the case for galaxies crammed together inside huge…
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Spitzer Spies on M82 Supernova
The closest supernova of its kind to be observed in the last few decades has sparked a global observing campaign involving legions of instruments on the…
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This is a Hubble Space Telescope composite image of a supernova explosion designated SN 2014J in the galaxy M82. At a distance of approximately 11.5 million…
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Hubble Reveals M83 Is Ablaze With Star Formation
The vibrant magentas and blues in this Hubble image of the barred spiral galaxy M83 reveal that the galaxy is ablaze with star formation. The galactic…
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Probing the Weather on Brown Dwarfs
Swirling, stormy clouds may be ever-present on cool celestial orbs called brown dwarfs. New observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that most brown dwarfs are…
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Super-Deep Views of the Universe
The first of a set of unprecedented, super-deep views of the universe from an ambitious collaborative program called The Frontier Fields is being released today at…
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