Huge gas cloud will hit Milky Way
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A giant hydrogen gas cloud will create new stars when it hits our galaxy in 20-40 million years' time.
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The first hard evidence of water outside our solar system is found on a new giant gas planet.
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NASA is preparing to launch a new space telescope named GLAST to study the most violent explosions in the history of our Universe.
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Three powerful bursts of energy from different regions of space could presage    spectacular explosions of huge stars, astronomers just announced.
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New pics of an old explosion NASA has released a striking new image of explosive neighbouring star Eta Carinae. The star is huge: somewhere between 100 and 150 times the size of our own sun. It is also consuming its fuel at a truly astonishing rate.â¦
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US astronomers have discovered massive new galaxies evolving in our corner of the universe. This means that galaxy-forming processes thought to have ended eons ago continue relatively nearby
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The largest explosion ever seen in space reveals black holes to be more influential    than expected, perhaps sometimes stifling star formation in a galaxy while    gobbling up trillions upon trillions of tons of gas.
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A NASA observatory discovers dozens of 'baby' galaxies in our midst. Scientists say the newborns could tell us a lot about our own aging Milky Way. By Amit Asaravala.
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Astronomers have estimated the age of our galaxy at about 13,600 million years old.
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Using a map of more than 4,000 luminous quasars in the distant universe, scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II) have shown that these brilliant beacons are strongly clumped, with huge quasar superclusters separated by vast stretches of empty space.
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At the outer limits of our solar system, a solar shock wave is about to overtake NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft.
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For the first time astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole blasting its galactic neighbor with a deadly beam of energy.
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SPACE.com / Nearly 2,000 years ago, Chinese astronomers spotted a bright light materializing in the night sky. Turns out the skywatchers had witnessed the spectacular explosion of a dying star.
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PASADENA, Calif. - An orbiting NASA telescope that scans the heavens for ultraviolet light sources has found evidence of massive &quot;baby&quot; galaxies that runs counter to a belief that the aging universe is now only forming small new galaxies.
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A cotton candy-like cloud of simple sugar drifts in the unspeakably cold center of the Milky Way  about 26,000 light years away, offering a remote, yet tantalizing, hint of how the building blocks of life may have reached  Earth billions of years ago.
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The cord will be cut today, and a billion-dollar baby will be on its own. Space scientists at the University of Arizona and around the world will find out tomorrow if the 9-foot-wide, saucer-shaped Huygens probe has been properly launched for its Jan.
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The surface of one of the brightest stars in the night sky is imaged by scientists.