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First-Ever Image of a Black Hole to be Captured by Earth-Sized Scope
[/caption] "Sgr A* is the right object, VLBI is the right technique, and this decade is the right time." So…
First Look at a Black Hole’s Feast
A true heart of darkness lies at the center of our galaxy: Sagittarius A* (pronounced "A-star") is a supermassive black…
Shiny New Supernova Spotted in Nearby Galaxy
[/caption] Literally an event of stellar proportions, a new Type Ia supernova has been identified in a spiral galaxy 25…
What is Galactic Cannibalism?
Seattle, January, 2003. Two prestigious astronomers: Puragra GuhaThakurta of UCSC and David Reitzel of UCLA present some new findings to…
A Four Cluster Pile-Up
[/caption] Abell 2744, shown above in a composite of images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the ESO's Very Large Telescope…
Galaxy Shapes
[/caption] Science revealed to us that universe as we know it, is composed of billions of galaxies like our own…
Hubble Finds “Oddball” Stars in Milky Way Hub
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope to peer deep into the central bulge of our galaxy have found a population…
Lone Planets “More Common Than Stars”
[/caption] We happen to live in a solar system where everything seems to be tucked neatly in place. Sun, planets,…
A New Spin on Galactic Evolution
There's a new concept in the works regarding the evolution of galactic arms and how they move across the…
What Galaxy Do We Live In?
If you are not an astronomy enthusiast you not have thought much about what galaxy do we live in. So…