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In 2014, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope found that this enormous galaxy cluster contains the mass of a staggering three million billion suns -- so it's little wonder that it has earned the nickname of El Gordo ('the Fat One' in Spanish).
Posted: Jan 17th, 2018
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Astronomers have discovered a star in the cluster NGC 3201 that is behaving very strangely. It appears to be orbiting an invisible black hole with about four times the mass of the Sun -- the first such inactive stellar-mass black hole found in a globular cluster and the first found by directly detecting its gravitational pull.
Posted: Jan 17th, 2018
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MUSE instrument allows deepest spectroscopic observations ever.
Posted: Jan 15th, 2018
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A team of astronomers has discovered what appears to be a grand exodus of more than 100 hydrogen clouds streaming away from the center of the Milky Way and heading into intergalactic space.
Posted: Jan 11th, 2018
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Supercomputer power enables advanced simulations of relativistic jets' behavior.
Posted: Jan 10th, 2018
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The mystery of Tabby's Star is so compelling that more than 1,700 people donated over $100,000 through a Kickstarter campaign in support of dedicated ground-based telescope time to observe and gather more data on the star through a network of telescopes around the world.
Posted: Jan 3rd, 2018
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Astronomers find close correlation between the mass of a galaxy's central black hole and its star formation history.
Posted: Jan 2nd, 2018
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New research has provided a deeper insight into emission line galaxies, used in several ongoing and upcoming surveys, to help us further understand the composition and fate of the universe.
Posted: Dec 21st, 2017
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It is theoretically possible that habitable planets exist around pulsars. According to new research, such planets must have an enormous atmosphere that converts the deadly x-rays and high energy particles of the pulsar into heat.
Posted: Dec 20th, 2017
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Compact spectroscopy instrument offers sensitive and fast detection for planetary exploration.
Posted: Dec 20th, 2017
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Astronomers have discovered that the GJ436b exoplanet, nicknamed 'the comet-like exoplanet' because it evaporates like a comet, follows a very special elliptical orbit over the poles of its star.
Posted: Dec 19th, 2017
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Theoretical physicists have determined what gravitational waves might look like if two black holes formed inside a massive, collapsing star.
Posted: Dec 19th, 2017
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Researchers have discovered for the first time a Z-shaped structure in a microquasar, a small scale version of a radio galaxy. This discovery has interesting consequences for some of these radio galaxies that have been assumed to date as gravitational wave emitters.
Posted: Dec 19th, 2017
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Astronomers have taken a fresh look at the nearby Alpha Centauri star system and found new ways to narrow the search for habitable planets there.
Posted: Dec 19th, 2017
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Observations of neutron star collision challenge some existing theories.
Posted: Dec 19th, 2017
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Astronomers have come up with a new and improved method for measuring the masses of millions of solitary stars, especially those with planetary systems.
Posted: Dec 14th, 2017
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