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| Colossal hot cloud envelopes colliding galaxies Posted: 30 Apr 2013 12:15 PM PDT Scientists have completed a detailed study of an enormous cloud of hot gas enveloping two large, colliding galaxies. This unusually large reservoir of gas contains as much mass as 10 billion Suns, spans about 300,000 light years, and radiates at a temperature of more than 7 million degrees. |
| Herschel completes its 'cool' journey in space Posted: 30 Apr 2013 07:24 AM PDT The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected. The European Space Agency mission, launched almost four years ago, revealed the universe's "coolest" secrets by observing the frigid side of planet, star and galaxy formation. |
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