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Star Clusters of Unimaginable Size Exist in the Universe

Posted by Warren Wong on Thursday, September 19, 2013, In : Star Astronomy 

Understanding how large star clusters form could tell us more about star formation when the universe was young


Tonight we’ll journey to the truly titanic 30 Doradus nebula (also called the Tarantula nebula), 170 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a smaller satellite galaxy to the Milky Way, where astronomers recently discovered something they suspected about the formation of larger star clusters.

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Galaxies Collide in Colossal Collisions

Posted by Warren Wong on Thursday, November 18, 2010, In : galaxies 

Oldest stars in Milky Way Galaxy appear to be captured parts of other galaxies

The stellar halo of the Milky Way contains older stars astronomers believe were captured during a collision with another galaxy about 5 billion years in the Milky Way's past

Astronomers studying the oldest stars in the Milky Way Galaxy think that the most ancient stars in the Milky Way Galaxy could be parts of other galaxies that have been transferred or captured by the Milky Way Galaxy during gigantic coll...


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Searching the Night Sky for a Supernova

Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 5, 2010, In : supernovas 
Astronomers are looking at NGC 3982 and other galaxies for a supernova to study
If you see a supernova, it could be your big moment in life? NASA photos.

The Milky Way use to be thought of as a spiral galaxy, but recently collected data seems to suggest to astronomers that the Milky Way could in fact be a barred galaxy. Either way, the human journey to the beginning of the universe has revealed to astronomers a seeming infinity of galaxies beyond the celestial horizon we view from Ear...


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Journey into the Heart of the Beehive

Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 5, 2010, In : Star Astronomy 
The bottom photo reminds many of bees moving around in a hive. NASA photos

The Hubble Space Telescope takes the human journey to the beginning of the universe into the beehive

We join the human journey to the beginning of the universe as it boards the Hubble Space Telescope to travel 15,800 light years (~ 4850 parsecs) into Centaurus the Centaur to globular cluster Omega Centauri to peer into the beehive and look at individual stars.The beehive as it's called was first noted by earl...


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