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The Sunburst Arc: A quirk of gravity reveals how the infant Universe lit up
Phil Plait
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Detail of one Starburst Arc shows several bright knots; each is an image of the same region of the lensed galaxy replicated through the lensing process. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, Rivera-Thorsen et al.
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A flocculent spiral galaxy with a really, really weird middle
Phil Plait
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A close-up of the central region of NGC 2775, showing how the arms end abruptly, giving way to a smooth distribution of stars. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Space Telescope/Janice Lee, processed by Judy Schmidt
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Why is this anemic galaxy’s central black hole so beefy?
Phil Plait
Nov 1, 2019
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artwork of a black hole accretion disk
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Super spiral galaxies are huge and bright… and spin *really* rapidly
Phil Plait
Oct 21, 2019
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Super spirals are huge spiral galaxies far larger and more massive than the Milky Way. Credit: NASA, ESA, P. Ogle and J. DePasquale (STScI). Bottom row: SDSS, P. Ogle and J. DePasquale (STScI)
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The Milky Way stole a lot of its satellite galaxies from another small galaxy
Phil Plait
Oct 15, 2019
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The Milky Way is a disk galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars. A new study indicates it underwent a burst of vigorous star formation that peaked about 2 billion years ago. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Caltech)
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The Andromeda Galaxy ate its small friends… twice
Phil Plait
Oct 9, 2019
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The Andromeda Galaxy grew by eating smaller galaxies. Credit: Local Group Survey Team and T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) / Phil Plait
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A little gorgeousness for you, c/o the spiral galaxy M61
Phil Plait
Aug 23, 2019
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The center of the galaxy M61 shows the spiral pattern goes right down to the core. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Det58
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Solving the riddle of the edge-on galaxy NGC 5866
Phil Plait
Aug 12, 2019
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A deep image of NGC 5866 reveals huge streams of stars looping around it; clear evidence of a recent galactic collision. Credit: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
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Measuring a monster: The two *billion* solar mass black hole in NGC 3258
Phil Plait
Aug 8, 2019
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Artwork depicting the inner ring of gas and dust around the accretion disk, with the supermassive black hole directly in the center powering everything. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
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Our galaxy is warped!
Phil Plait
Aug 5, 2019
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The ages of the Cepheid stars observed are mapped against a schematic of the Milky Way by color: Blue is youngest and red oldest; note how younger stars are closer to the center. The Sun’s position is marked by the yellow “sun” symbol. Credit: J. Skowron
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NGC 1569: A nearby galaxy bursting with star birth
Phil Plait
Jul 17, 2019
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The nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 1569 is bursting with new stars.
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Battle of the bulges: Have astronomers been wrong about spiral galaxies all this time?
Phil Plait
Jun 12, 2019
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The flocculent spiral galaxy NGC 2841. Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration 
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Where did this tiny ghostly galaxy Segue-1 come from?
Phil Plait
Jun 11, 2019
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The location of the teeny tiny galaxy Segue-1, which is pretty much too faint to even see in this image, despite being right in the center. Credit: SIMBAD / DSS
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An amateur astronomer has discovered a nearby galaxy!
Phil Plait
Jun 3, 2019
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The faint galaxy Donatiello I seen in a small telescope (left) shows it near the very bright star Mirach; the same field as the inset box using the 10.4 meter Gran Telescopio Canarias (right). Credit: Martínez-Delgado et al.
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A galaxy torn apart blasts out a six-million-degree scream
Phil Plait
May 29, 2019
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The face-on spiral galaxy is lovely in optical light (blue) but has a very big secret in X-rays (purple). Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Huntingdon Inst. for X-ray Astronomy/G.Garmire, Optical: ESO/VLT
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