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The Black Hole/Globular Cluster Correlation
[/caption] Often in astronomy, one observable property traces another property which may be more difficult to observe directly; X-ray activity…
Ultraluminous Gamma Ray Burst 080607 – A “Monster in the Dark”
[/caption] Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the most energetic phenomena astronomers regularly observe. These events are triggered by massive…
Colliding Galaxies Created the First Black Holes
[/caption] How were the Universe’s first supermassive black holes formed? A new model of the evolution of galaxies and black…
Astrophotography Spotlight – Centaurus A
"I'm on rhe outside... I'm lookin' in." And just who are we looking in at this time? None other than…
Giant Ultraviolet Rings Found Around Ancient Galaxies
[/caption] Title this 'Zombie Galaxies' or 'Night of the Living Galaxies.' Astronomers have found mysterious, giant loops of ultraviolet light…
Breathtaking Galaxy Amid the Dense Coma Cluster
[/caption] The Coma Cluster is a huge, densely populated cluster, with thousands of galaxies closely bunched together. Amid the bedlam…
Space Telescopes Team Up to Capture Spectacular Galactic Collision
[/caption] From JPL: A new image of two tangled galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies,…
WISE Mission Completes All-sky Infrared Survey
[/caption] If you take a lot of digital pictures, you're probably familiar with the frustration of keeping track of dozens…
Cosmologists Provide Closest Measure of Elusive Neutrino
[/caption] Cosmologists – and not particle physicists -- could be the ones who finally measure the mass of the elusive…
Zoom into a New VISTA of the Sculptor Galaxy
The new VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) has captured…