The X-rays reveal hundreds of young stars clustered in the center of the image and additional…
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Astronomy
Ancient Dwarf Galaxy Reconstructed With MilkyWay@home Volunteer Computer
Astrophysicists for the first time have calculated the original mass and size of a dwarf galaxy…
Supermassive Black Hole Caught Hiding In A Ring Of Cosmic Dust
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has observed a cloud of cosmic…
A New Type Of Star Covered In Helium Burning Ashes
A team of German astronomers, led by Professor Klaus Werner of the University of Tübingen, have…
A Cosmic Draw
It is now widely accepted amongst astronomers that an important aspect of how galaxies evolve is…
Distant Galaxies And The True Nature Of Dark Matter
At the centre of spiral galaxies – those near to us but also those billions of…
Chandra Views Spiral Galaxy NGC 4490
When two galaxies are in the process of merging, the gravitational interaction can trigger waves of…
The Final Moments Of Planetary Remnants Seen For The First Time
The moment that debris from destroyed planets impacts the surface of a white dwarf star has…
Chemical History Of The Milky Way Revealed By New Catalog Of Tens Of Millions Of Stars
University of Notre Dame researchers, along with collaborators in China and Australia, published a new sample…
Hubble Revisits a Galactic Oddball NGC 1705
The dwarf galaxy NGC 1705 featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope lies…