A view of Eta Carinae by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in 2000. (R) What the star could look like in 2032, when it overshadows its nebula. January 30, 2019 by Jeff Heinrich, University of Montreal For over a century and a half, Eta Carinae has been one of the most luminous – and most enigmatic …
Illustration of a star cluster forming from the collision of turbulent molecular clouds, which appear as dark shadows in front of the background galactic star field. Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook November 7, 2018, NASA The sun, like all stars, was born in a giant cold cloud of molecular gas and dust. It may have had dozens …
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These images reveal the final stage of a union between two galactic nuclei in the messy core of the merging galaxy NGC 6240. The image at left shows the entire galaxy. At right is a close-up of the two brilliant cores of this galactic union. This view, taken in infrared light, pierces the dense cloud …
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The research team developed this map that reveals the Magellanic Clouds have had repeated interactions with each other over billions of years. Credit: Dougal Mackey, ANU November 8, 2018 by Will Wright, Australian National University Astronomers have witnessed, in the finest detail yet, a brutal David-vs-Goliath fight between two nearby galaxies that are tearing …
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