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Astronomers Discover Extremely Luminous Mega-Galaxy

Multi-wavelength view of the merging galaxy pair HXMM01 (ESA / NASA / JPL-Caltech / UC Irvine / STScI / Keck / NRAO / SAO)
May 23, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to an international team of astronomers working with ESA’s Herschel Space Telescope, two gas-rich, actively star-forming galaxies that collided 11 billion years ago are rapidly forming a new elliptical mega-galaxy, labeled HXMM01. Multi-wavelength view of the merging galaxy pair HXMM01 (ESA / NASA / JPL-Caltech / UC Irvine / STScI / Keck / NRAO / SAO) Most massive galaxies in the Universe fall into two major categories: gas-rich spiral...

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This new image of cosmic clouds in the constellation of Orion reveals what seems to be a fiery ribbon in the sky (ESO / Digitized Sky Survey 2)

APEX Sees Star Formation in Orion Nebula

May 21, 2013 by Sci-News.com

Astronomers using ESO’s Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in Chile has captured a stunning new image of cosmic clouds in the constellation of Orion. This...

This image shows Kepler-76b orbiting its host star, which has been tidally distorted into a slight football shape (David A. Aguilar / Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Einstein’s Planet: Special Theory of Relativity Helps Astronomers Discover Kepler-76b

May 14, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of scientists from Israel and the United States has reported the first-ever discovery of an extrasolar planet using a novel method...

PSR J0348+0432 (John Antoniadis et al)

Bizarre Pulsar-White Dwarf Pair Proves Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

May 1, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has discovered and studied a strange stellar pair about 7,000 light-years...

Betelgeuse e-MERLIN image (University of Manchester)

Astronomers Observe Mysterious Hot Spots on Betelgeuse

Apr 25, 2013 by Sci-News.com

Astronomers using e-MERLIN Radio Telescope Array at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, UK, have captured a new image of the outer atmosphere of...

Blazar PKS 1424+240 (Perugia Blazar List)

Extremely Distant Blazar Puzzles Astrophysicists

Apr 23, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to a study accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters (arXiv.org version), a blazar called PKS 1424+240 is the most distant...

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Horsehead Nebula: Spectacular New Image from Hubble

Apr 22, 2013 by Sci-News.com

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of the Horsehead Nebula in infrared light. This new Hubble image...

Kepler-62f, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star smaller and cooler than the Sun (NASA Ames / JPL-Caltech)

Earth-like Planets Found in Habitable Zone around Kepler-62, Kepler-69

Apr 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Using observations with NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earths in the habitable...

X-ray image of the SN 1006 remnant. Low, medium, and higher-energy X-rays are colored red, green, and blue respectively (NASA / CXC / Middlebury College / F. Winkler)

Chandra Sees Supernova SN 1006 in Exquisite Detail

Apr 18, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have captured the most detailed view yet of the supernova SN 1006. X-ray image of the SN 1006...

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