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Pink Galactic Smackdown Results in Cosmic Bulls-eye

December 6, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Bright pink nebulae encircle spiral galaxy NGC 922 in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA. Zoom: John Williams/TerraZoom and Zoomify Galaxies pack a wallop. A galactic bulls-eye ringed with pink nebulae is the only evidence of a [...]

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Digging Deeper For Dark Matter

October 17, 2011

Dark matter… If it can’t be seen, then how do we know it’s there? If it wasn’t for the effects of gravity, we wouldn’t. We’d have a galaxy filled with runaway stars and no galaxy would exist for long. But how it behaves and how it is distributed in one of the biggest cosmic cryptograms [...]

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