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Cassini Says “Senkyo Very Much”

April 8, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter In this image acquired on January 5, Cassini’s near-infrared vision pierced Titan’s opaque clouds to get a glimpse of the dark dune fields across a region called Senkyo. The vast sea of dunes is composed of solid hydrocarbon particles that have [...]

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Lighting Up Andromeda’s Coldest Rings

January 30, 2013

Cold rings of dust are illuminated in this image taken by Herschel’s Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) instrument. Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/B. Schulz (NHSC) Looking wispy and delicate from 2.5 million light-years away, cold rings of dust are seen swirling around the Andromeda galaxy in this new image from the Herschel Space Observatory, giving us yet another [...]

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So. Many. Stars…

January 11, 2013

Infrared image of globular cluster 47 Tucanae (NGC 104) captured by ESO’s VISTA telescope. “My god, it’s full of stars!” said Dave Bowman in the movie 2010 as he entered the monolith, and one could imagine that the breathtaking view before him looked something like this. Except this isn’t science fiction, it’s reality — this is [...]

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Combining Light to Reveal Monster Black Holes

December 13, 2012

NGC 3627 glows in the combined light of Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer and the Very Large Telescope in this image. Astronomers conducted a survey of 62 galaxies, including NGC 3627 to study monster black holes at their centers. It’s not just pretty, it’s science. Like a starry watercolor, astronomers combining light from Earth and space-based observatories [...]

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The Brightest Galaxies in the Universe Were Invisible… Until Now

December 4, 2012

Hubble images of six of the starburst galaxies first found by ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory (Keck data shown below each in blue) Many of the brightest, most actively star-forming galaxies in the Universe were actually undetectable by Earth-based observatories, hidden from view by thick clouds of opaque dust and gas. Thanks to ESA’s Herschel space [...]

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