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Latest News On Galaxies and Space Science
NASA Telescope Finds Elusive Buckyballs in Space for First TimeAstronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered carbon molecules, known as "buckyballs," in space for the first time. Buckyballs are ...
Hyperfast Star Was Booted From Milky WayA hundred million years ago, a triple-star system was traveling through the bustling center of our Milky Way galaxy when it made a life-changing misst...
Meet the Titans: Dust Disk Found Around Massive StarA new discovery has the potential to answer the long-standing question of how massive stars are born -- and hints at the possibility that planets coul...
Black Hole Blows Big BubbleCombining observations made with ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope, astronomers have uncovered the most powerful pair of j...
R Coronae Australis: A Cosmic WatercolorThe star R Coronae Australis lies in one of the nearest and most spectacular star-forming regions. This portrait was taken by the Wide Field Imager (W...
Planck unveils the Universe - now and thenESA's Planck mission has delivered its first all-sky image. It not only provides new insight into the way stars and galaxies form but also tells us ho...
ESA To Set Tiny Hair-Like Webb Telescope MicroshuttersTiny little shutters as small as the width of a human hair are a key component in the James Webb Space Telescope's ability to see huge distances in th...
Astronomers Discover Star-Studded Galaxy TailNASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has discovered a galaxy tail studded with bright knots of new stars. The tail, which was created as the galaxy IC 341...
Jumbo Jellyfish or Massive Star?Some might see a blood-red jellyfish in a forest of seaweed, while others might see a big, red eye or a pair of lips. In fact, the red-colored object ...
NASA Releases Kepler Data on Potential Extrasolar PlanetsNASA's Kepler Mission has released 43 days of science data on more than 156,000 stars. These stars are being monitored for subtle brightness changes a...
VISTA Views the Sculptor GalaxyA spectacular new image of the Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253) has been taken with the ESO VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile as part of on...
Zooming In on an Infant Solar System A team led by University of Arizona astronomer Joshua Eisner has observed in unprecedented detail the processes giving rise to stars and planets in na...
Backwards Black Holes Might Make Bigger JetsGoing against the grain may turn out to be a powerful move for black holes. New research suggests supermassive black holes that spin backwards might p...
A Cosmic Zoo in the Large Magellanic CloudAstronomers often turn their telescopes to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the closest galaxies to our own Milky Way, in their quest to under...
Astronomers Discover Clue to Origin of Milky Way Gas CloudsA surprising discovery that hydrogen gas clouds found in abundance in and above our Milky Way Galaxy have preferred locations has given astronomers a ...
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