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Astronomy
Hubble Finds Flame Nebula’s Searing Stars May Halt Planet Formation
The Flame Nebula or NGC 2024 is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that…
Magellanic Stream Arcing Over Milky Way May Be Five Times Closer Than Previously Thought
Our galaxy is not alone. Swirling around the Milky Way are several smaller, dwarf galaxies —…
Roasted And Shredded by a Stellar Sidekick
An exhausted star still has some punches to deliver. Click here for original…
Supercomputing Reveals "Fossil Record" of Galaxy Collisions and Mergers
How do galaxies evolve into the starry spirals famously seen by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and…
Astronomers Team Up To Create A New Method To Understand Galaxy Evolution
A husband-and-wife team of astronomers at The University of Toledo joined forces for the first time…
Hubble Spies Newly Forming Star Incubating in IC 2631
Stars are born from clouds of gas and dust that collapse under their own gravitational attraction.…
Nebula Churns Out Massive Stars in New Hubble Image
Stars are born from turbulent clouds of gas and dust that collapse under their own gravitational…
Simulations Provide A Clue To The Missing Planets Mystery
Forming planets are one possible explanation for the rings and gaps observed in disks of gas…
Black Hole Found Hiding In Star Cluster Outside Our Galaxy
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered a small black…