Galaxy mergers excite scientists
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An international team of scientists described this week one of the most cataclysmic events in the universe, cosmic cannibalism in which one massive galaxy cluster is gobbling its smaller neighbor.
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Scientists were startled when they discovered in 2004 that the center of our galaxy is emitting gamma rays with energies in the tens of trillions of electronvolts.
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STUNNING images have captured what astronomers call &quot;the graceful interactions of a galactic ballet, played out on a stage some 300 million light years away&quot;.
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Lagos - An item has appeared in the Universe Today, Space News from Around the Internet that the NASA&#39;s Galaxy Evolution Explorer has discovered baby galaxies forming in our relative neighborhood, casting doubt on the theory that only small galaxies were
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Astronomers have found ancient galaxies that appear to be the building blocks of our own Milky Way.
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Observations by an international team of astronomers with the UVES spectrometer on ESO's Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory (Chile) have thrown new light on the earliest epoch of the Milky Way galaxy.
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Nine recently discovered galaxies are among the smallest galaxies that have been found.
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The Swift space-borne observatory has seen two stars in the same galaxy explode within months of each other.
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Astronomers have found evidence for the most distant galaxies ever detected.
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, in collaboration with several other ground- and space- based telescopes, has captured a galaxy being ripped apart by a galaxy cluster's gravitational field and harsh environment.
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A cosmic explosion that seems to have come out of nowhere&#x2014;thousands of light-years from the nearest collection of stars&#x2014;has left astronomers baffled.
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A long-anticipated merger may soon come true.
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A systematic search for the first bright galaxies to form in the early universe has revealed a dramatic jump in the number of such galaxies around 13 billion years ago.
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A long- sought-after Holy Grail for astronomers is a complete understanding of how galaxies such as the Milky Way formed. But since scientists believe
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&quot;It&#39;s like finding a living fossil in your own back yard,&quot; said Tim Heckman of Johns Hopkins. &quot;We thought this type of galaxy had gone extinct, but in fact newborn galaxies are alive and well in the universe.
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A new partnership with an astronomy organization could spur additional innovation.
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A theory of how the universe expanded and a tool used to expand global communication networks are being touted as breakthroughs worthy of this year's Nobel Prize in physics.