Spacecraft Sees Infant Galaxies in Aging Universe
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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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Astronomers have estimated the age of our galaxy at about 13,600 million years old.
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Science & environment: Telescope reveals in unprecedented detail the interaction of two neighbouring galaxies 300m light years from Earth.
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Billions of years after a galactic "baby boom," a NASA spacecraft has detected dozens of newborn galaxies in Earth's part of the universe.
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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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Orphaned stars are being born in a vast tail of material stretching behind a faraway galaxy, astronomers said today.
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The things astronomers discover as they probe deeper into the universe -- orphaned baby stars, planet-devouring black holes -- paint a bleak picture of "out there." Heck, we might as well stay home.
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Galaxies that formed just 700 million years after the birth of the universe have been detected by scientists in California and Japan.
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An embryonic star, just beginning its life as the center of a planetary system, is apparently deluged with massive rainfall as icy material vaporizes and refreezes. Astronomers are observing one such star in a nebula about 1,000 light years from Earth with the Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Astronomers took pictures of a far-off lumpy galaxy just forming 13 billion years ago, putting it among the earliest and most distant cosmic objects ever photographed.
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Nine recently discovered galaxies are among the smallest galaxies that have been found.
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Astronomers have observed for the first time a jet of matter spiraling outward from an infant star, as if a lengthy strand of curly pasta.
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Using data from a NASA satellite, an astronomer has simulated the sound that he says followed the birth of the universe. Includes audio.
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com Staff. Astronomers have produced the first truly useful image ever of something in space using gamma rays. It&#39;s a picture only an astronomer could love, but it appears to help solve a century-long mystery.
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Scientists see a galaxy whose light would have set out some 12.8 billion years ago.
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Since June 2003, NASA has been investigating the possibility of using a robotic spacecraft to service Hubble. Such a mission would not put the lives of astronauts in jeopardy.
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NEW YORK Humans might know that the universe is thought to be 15 billion years old, or that the Milky Way was formed 13 billion years ago, but the way we feel about ourselves in relation to a 4.5 billion-year-old earth is not much different from the way