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Newborn Stars in the Orion Nebula Prevent Other Stars from Forming
The Orion Nebula is one of the most observed and photographed objects in the night sky. At a distance of…
Check out this Amazing Picture of the Triangulum Galaxy by Hubble.
To the unaided eye, the Triangulum Galaxy is just a smudge in the night sky. But it's a smudge that…
Astronomers Count all the Photons in the Universe. Spoiler Alert: 4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Photons
Imagine yourself in a boat on a great ocean, the water stretching to the distant horizon, with the faintest hints…
We’re in the Milky Way’s Second Life. Star Formation was Shut Down for Billions of Years
According to a new study, the Milky Way Galaxy experienced two periods of star formation, with a two-billion dormancy period…
Outflows From Black Holes are Creating New Molecules Where There Should Only be Destruction
A new study from a team of astronomers from Northwestern University indicates that molecules could be born within the outflows…
Supermassive Black Holes can Turn Star Formation On and Off in a Large Galaxy
A new study by a team of international astronomers has provided the first direct evidence that supermassive black holes affect…
Hubble Finds a Dead Galaxy that was Finished Making Stars Just a Few Billion Years After the Big Bang
Relying on Hubble and gravitational lensing, a team of astronomers made the unexpected discovery of a galaxy that ceased star…
Are There Dark Matter Galaxies? ft. Sarah Pearson from Space with Sarah
We know there’s dark matter, and there are galaxies, but are there galaxies entirely made up of dark matter? Astronomer…
Distant Stellar Nurseries: This Time, in High Definition
This article is a guest post by Anna Ho, who is currently doing research on stars in the Milky Way…
Winds of Supermassive Black Holes Can Shape Galaxy-Wide Star Formation
The combined observations from two generations of X-Ray space telescopes have now revealed a more complete picture of the nature of…