The research has thrown a wrench into what we know about how galaxies form
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Astronomers find never-before-seen regions of star formation in our galaxy
A research team has discovered new evidence of stars forming in the Milky Way
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How astronomers analysed star formation in a galaxy’s nucleus
With all that gas in the galactic nucleus, shouldn’t stars be made faster?
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NASA delivers detectors for upcoming dark energy space telescope
Three detector systems for the Euclid mission, led by the European Space Agency, have been delivered to Europe for the spacecraft’s near-infrared instrument
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Astronomers capture the beating of a black hole’s heart
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have revealed details about a giant black hole, located some 145 million light years away
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Space telescope maps star’s ‘death spiral’ into a black hole
Some 290 million years ago, a star much like the Sun wandered too close to the central black hole of its galaxy
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Astronomers discover massive black hole choking on stardust
Data from NASA’s Swift spacecraft, amongst other telescopes, suggest black holes swallow stellar debris in bursts
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Stars in Milky Way’s halo found to travel in groups
The finding was made after recent analysis of data for millions of stars from the Gaia space mission
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Astronomers solve galactic ‘murder mystery’
Across the universe, galaxies are being killed and the question scientists want answered is, what’s killing them?
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Universe found to be turning a shade of green
Astronomers have found that the earliest galaxies have been turning an unusual colour
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Giant radio telescope casts new light on Big Bang radiation
An unexpected contribution to the universe’s relic radiation has been detected for the very first time
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Red ‘Santa Claus’ nebula lights up the Milky Way
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured two festive-looking nebulae brightening up our galaxy
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Astronomers discover a ‘hyper-starburst’ galaxy
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes reveal that a recently discovered galaxy is undergoing an extraordinary boom of stellar construction
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Cosmic oddity revealed in greater detail by Hubble Space Telescope
The spacecraft has revealed the intricate structure of the galaxy NGC 4696 better than ever before
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Astronomers solve mystery of super-faint galaxies
The galactic objects are distributed over an area just as large as the Milky Way
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New family of stars discovered in the Milky Way’s core
The finding has shed new light on the origins of globular clusters
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Dieting black hole dims its host galaxy
Astronomers may have solved the mystery of the peculiar volatile behaviour of a supermassive black hole
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Cosmic smash up ‘cleanly’ rips supermassive black hole from its galaxy
Astronomers have found the shredded remains of a galaxy that passed through a larger galaxy
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Massive holes ‘punched’ in star trail likely caused by dark matter
The discovery of two massive holes in a stream of stars could help answer questions about the nature of the elusive material