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Hubble Sees Magnetic Monster in Erupting Galaxy
25 August 2008 | Space | No Comments
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found an answer to a long-standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275. It is the most striking example of the influence of the immense tentacles of extragalactic magnetic fields, say researchers.
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Spiral Galaxies in Collision
21 April 2008 | Space | No Comments
Billions of years from now, only one of these two galaxies will remain. Until then, spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163 will slowly pull each other apart, creating tides of matter, sheets of shocked gas, lanes of dark dust, bursts of star formation, and streams of cast-away stars.
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New Clues to the Most Amazing Shapes in Space
19 March 2008 | Space | No Comments
The term “planetary nebula” has always been a misnomer, but these spectacular clouds of dust and gas may actually have something to do with planets after all, astronomers have found.
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18 Billion Suns : Biggest Black Hole in Universe Discovered
19 March 2008 | Space | No Comments
The biggest black hole in the universe weighs in with a respectable mass of 18 billion Suns, and is about the size of an entire galaxy.
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Ten things you don’t know about the Milky Way Galaxy
16 March 2008 | Science, Interesting, Space | No Comments
So you’ve lived here all your life - in fact, everyone has - but what do you really know about the Milky Way galaxy? Sure, you know it’s a spiral, and it’s 100,000 light years across. And of course, you’re smarter, more well-read, and better looking than the average population, but be honest: do you […]