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Astronomers Have Discovered a Rare ‘Polar Ring Galaxy’ Wrapped in a Huge Ribbon of Hydrogen
by Troy OakesA galaxy can come in many shapes and sizes, from giant, slowly rotating ovals and fast-whirling spiral disks …
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A Neutrino Portrait of Our Galaxy Reveals High-Energy Particles From Within the Milky Way
by Troy OakesOur Milky Way galaxy is an awe-inspiring feature of the night sky, viewable with the naked eye as …
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A team of astronomers in Japan has discovered for the first time a faint radio emission covering a …
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Analysis of unique “fingerprints” in light emitted from material surrounding young stars has revealed “significant reservoirs” of large …
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The center of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is framed by the tell-tale arcs that …
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Using the most advanced telescopes on Earth and in orbit, scientists like Dr. Rebecca McElroy have gained unprecedented …
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Submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) are a class of the most luminous, distant, and rapidly star-forming galaxies known and can …
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Hubble Shows Torrential Outflows from Infant Stars May Not Stop Them from Growing
by Troy OakesThough our galaxy is an immense city of at least 200 billion stars, the details of how infant …
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With the help of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found six galaxies lying around a supermassive …