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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
A huge distant galaxy went from making billions of stars to suddenly stopping. Why?
Phil Plait
Feb 6, 2020
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The Sunburst Arc: A quirk of gravity reveals how the infant Universe lit up
Phil Plait
Nov 18, 2019
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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The Legacy of Hubble: One image, a quarter MILLION galaxies
Phil Plait
May 3, 2019
Detail of the Hubble Deep Field shown at nearly full resolution.
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A quasar at the edge of the observable Universe shines with the light of 10 *trillion* Suns
Phil Plait
Jan 18, 2019
The quasar J043947.08+163415.7 (red) is extremely far away, and its light has been amplified by an intervening galaxy (blue) much closer to Earth. Credit: NASA, ESA, and X. Fan (University of Arizona)
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Pale, dusty dots
Phil Plait
Jan 11, 2019
A map of the sky using the far-infrared observatory Herschel; every dot you see in this image is a distant galaxy. Credit: ESA/Herschel/SPIRE; M. W. L. Smith et al 2017
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Measuring all the light in the Universe. All of it. Ever.
Phil Plait
Nov 30, 2018
Omega Centauri
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A gigantic galactic city — still under construction — seen clear across the Universe
Phil Plait
Oct 18, 2018
A visualization of the Hyperion proto-supercluster based on actual observations. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada & Olga Cucciati et al.
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Hubble goes deep and finds thousands of galaxies assembling when the Universe was young
Phil Plait
Aug 20, 2018
A deep Hubble image in ultraviolet, visible, and infrared light shows thousands of galaxies in the early Universe. This is the northern field of the HDUV survey.
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A glimpse of oxygen at the edge of space reveals stars born just after the Universe itself
Phil Plait
May 17, 2018
The galaxy cluster MACSJ1149.5+223 lies in the foreground and magnifies the image of the much more distant JD1, a galaxy 13.3 billion light years away. Inset is the observation of oxygen from the galaxy.
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How fast is the Universe expanding? The answer depends on how you measure it, and that's a problem
Phil Plait
Feb 26, 2018
This is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, and almost everything you see in it is a distant galaxy, billions of light years away. Credit: NASA, ESA, H. Teplitz and M. Rafelski (IPAC/Caltech), A. Koekemoer (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), and Z.
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The immensity of the Universe, and our place in it
Phil Plait
Jan 1, 2018
The immense galaxy cluster Abell 2163 is 2.5 billion light years away and contains hundreds of massive galaxies. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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The black hole on the edge of forever
Phil Plait
Dec 6, 2017
Hercules A is a relatively nearby active galaxy, with a black hole in its heart eating matter and blasting out huge amounts of radiation and matter.
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Scientists believe there could be a wormhole at the center of our galaxy
Trent Moore
May 29, 2014
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Here’s the latest news from Blastr and the world of SCI FI, Fantasy and Horror - January 27, 2017
Patrick Lee
Dec 14, 2012
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