Starburst snap holds clues to galactic evolution
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Hubble's still got it In a galaxy far, far away, a period of unusually intense star formation is underway. Thousands upon thousands of new stars are blazing into life, as a starburst rips through the galaxy NGC 4449.â¦
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Billions of years after a galactic &quot;baby boom,&quot; a NASA spacecraft has detected dozens of newborn galaxies in the Earth&#39;s part of the universe.
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A NASA satellite catches the action as a massive star smashes to smithereens. It open up a whole new universe to astronomers. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Billions of years after a galactic &quot;baby boom,&quot; a NASA (news - web sites) spacecraft has detected dozens of newborn galaxies in Earth&#39;s part of the universe.
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has set its infrared sight on a major galactic collision and witnessed not death, but a teeming nest of life. The colliding galaxies, called the Antennae galaxies, are in the process of merging together.
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The earliest stars may hold clues to the nature of the Universe's mysterious dark matter, simulations suggest.
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Astronomers reveal one of the clearest images obtained of Stephan's Quintet.
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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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Astronomers using a giant telescope say  they have found glimpses of the most distant -- and oldest --  galaxies ever seen, a finding that will help provide clues to  the origins of the universe.
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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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A brand new image taken with Hubbleâs Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 shows the planetary nebula NGC 2440 - the chaotic structure of the demise of a star.This image, just taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the colourful âlast hurrahâ of a star like our Sun.
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Life near the center of our galaxy never had a chance. Every 20 million years on average, gas pours into the galactic center and slams together, creating millions of new stars. The more massive stars soon go supernova, exploding violently and blasting the surrounding space.
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Sept. 9, 2004 - Like an onion cut in half, the concentric shells surrounding the Cat&#39;s Eye Nebula are visible in the newest image from the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Galactic home improvement Scientists think they have found evidence that the middle of our galaxy formed separately and at a different time to the spiralling arms in which we reside.â¦
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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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This image released Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004, by NASA shows six of the three-dozen &quot;ultraviolet luminous galaxies&quot; spotted in our corner of the universe by NASA&#39;s Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
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The surface of one of the brightest stars in the night sky is imaged by scientists.