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Artist drawing of a blazar, a galaxy with a supermassive black hole spewing out energy. Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab
How to make a blazar: Slam two galaxies together and watch them feed a huge black hole
Phil Plait
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International telescopes capture radiant new magnetic fields spanning entire spiral galaxy
Jeff Spry
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When were the *very* first stars born? Earlier than we can see, even with Hubble
Phil Plait
Jun 16, 2020
Artwork depicting the first stars in the Universe lighting up the gas clouds from which they were born. Credit: NAOJ
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One ring (galaxy) to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them
Phil Plait
May 26, 2020
Hoag’s Object is a perfect example of a ring galaxy, about 600 million light years away. Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: Ray A. Lucas (STScI/AURA)
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How did this galaxy emerge from the chaos just 1.5 billion years after the big Bang?
Phil Plait
May 25, 2020
Artwork depicting the Wolfe Galaxy, a massive disk galaxy similar to the Milky Way that was already well formed when the Universe was 1.5 billion years old. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello
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How to make a massive star cluster: Start with a lot of gas. A *lot*.
Phil Plait
May 5, 2020
Detail of Hubble image of the globular cluster M22. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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Record-breaking blazar found 12.8 *billion* light years from Earth
Phil Plait
Mar 9, 2020
Artist drawing of a blazar, a galaxy with a supermassive black hole spewing out energy. Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab
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Yo, I heard you like galaxy collisions so I put a galaxy collision in your galaxy collision
Phil Plait
Feb 7, 2020
NGC 4490, a galaxy bursting with star formation after a recent close encounter with a smaller galaxy. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgements: D. Calzetti (UMass) and the LEGUS Team, J. Maund (University of Sheffield), and R. Chandar (University of To
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A huge distant galaxy went from making billions of stars to suddenly stopping. Why?
Phil Plait
Feb 6, 2020
The hugely sprawling Tarantula Nebula, a vast star-forming complex in a nearby satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It's currently making hundreds of thousands of stars. Credit: ESO
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In dwarf galaxies, a black hole wind is rising
Phil Plait
Jan 27, 2020
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Hubble's spectacular view of UGC 2885: Is this the biggest spiral galaxy in the Universe?
Phil Plait
Jan 9, 2020
The enormous spiral galaxy UGC 2885, nicknamed “Rubin’s Galaxy” after astronomer Vera Rubin. It may be the largest spiral galaxy known. Credit: NASA, ESA, and B. Holwerda (University of Louisville)
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The care and feeding of baby supermassive black holes
Phil Plait
Jan 7, 2020
In this piece of art, an active galaxy called a quasar blasts out energy and matter in two jets which blow matter away from it. However, it’s also surrounded by a huge halo of gas (blue) that can fall toward the center.
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NGC 4455: A nearby galaxy that's the stepping stone to the Universe
Phil Plait
Jan 3, 2020
The relatively nearby galaxy NGC 4455, observed by Hubble specifically to find its distance. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, I. Karachentsev et al.
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When galaxies collide, you get… a heron?
Phil Plait
Dec 20, 2019
The galaxies NGC 5394 and 5395, undergoing a very close pass that’s affecting both of them. ​​​​​​​Credit: NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/Gemini Observatory/AURA
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Across the Universe, it's the normal galaxies doing all the star-making work
Phil Plait
Dec 18, 2019
130 hours of MeerKAT observations in radio wavelengths yielded an image of tens of thousands of normal galaxies at distances of billion of light years. Credit: SARAO; NRAO/AUI/NSF
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Take a mesmerizing trip inside the most detailed galactic simulation ever created
Jeff Spry
Nov 20, 2019
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