Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers was recently able to image an extremely large star cluster located at the center of the Milky Way. Called Messier 9, the object is located some 25,000 light-years away from Earth, and contains more than 250,000 stars. It was first discovered in 1764 b... |
16 March 2012
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Using the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), astronomers were able to identify two more globular star clusters within our galaxy, the Milky Way. The discovery raises the total number of such structures to 159. One of the newly-found structures is very interesting because it is not located at... |
19 October 2011
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As telescopes become increasingly advanced, astronomers are beginning to discover weird structures at the core of our galaxy, which indicate a rough past for the Milky Way. Recently, a team of experts studied the Terzan 5 globular cluster, gaining new knowledge of how the galaxy formed.Astrophysicists refer to many o... |
6 September 2011
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Hundreds of black holes, weighing it at several thousand solar masses each, could be roaming the Milky Way, say investigators who recently conducted a new scientific study on the issue. These object are massive enough to devour entire planets whole. Seeing black holes directly is impossible, but experts know enough a... |
2 June 2011
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A recent investigation conducted using the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an interesting phenomenon going on inside the cores of galaxies that everyone thought were inactive. New images indicate that stellar formation is taking place at those locations still.Messier 105 was one of the elliptical galaxies that wa... |
31 May 2011
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Until not long ago, astronomy students were taught that globular clusters are accumulations of stats that formed from the same massive gas cloud. As such, no new stars could develop beyond the time of initial formation. This notion was however proven wrong in a new study.The research looked at a large number of such ... |
31 May 2011
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New data would appear to indicate that the earliest stars ever to appear in the Universe were in fact spinning at tremendously high speeds. Astronomers now call these objects “spinstars,” and say that they at times reached spinning velocities of about a million miles per hour.
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28 April 2011
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A team of astronomers working out of Chile managed to collect an impressive new view of one of the Milky Way's closest companions, the globular star cluster Messier 107. The structure is located relatively nearby, at just 21,000 light-years away from our galaxy. The object was imaged using the 2.2-meter telescop... |
4 April 2011
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A group of astronomers managed to use the NASA Hubble Space Telescope recently for peering some 10,000 years into the future of a globular cluster in the Milky Way, called Omega Centauri. Using the immense observations power that the renowned instrument has, experts were capable of making out the individual paths and... |
27 October 2010
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The mass a supermassive black hole at the center of a large galaxy has appears to be related to the number of globular cluster that particular galaxy contains, a new report suggests. The data has been derived from a new investigation of the stars, which indicates that the two are somehow linked. The exact mechanisms ... |
6 September 2010
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New data from the Hubble Space Telescope appears to indicate that many stars and globular star clusters that exist in our galaxy were not born here, but arrived from elsewhere. Observations showed that these bodies were most likely generated in distant regions, and then traveled all the way to their current location.... |
23 February 2010
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Astronomers believe that, many years ago, when our galaxy was still in its infancy, it collided with a dwarf cousin, giving birth to a host of processes, including the development of a stellar cluster. As the Milky Way went on to grow to the impressive sizes it has today, the “fossilized” stellar cluster ... |
26 November 2009
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In a recent Hubble image, astronomers have observed a very peculiar type of white dwarfs, in a globular cluster containing some of the Universe's oldest star remnants. The 24 celestial bodies, of which 18 have never before been seen, are made up almost entirely of helium, instead of the carbon and oxygen these f... |
23 April 2009
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