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- Solar splashdown provide new insights into how young stars grow by sucking up nearby gas
- Hubble spots galaxies in close encounter: Colliding galaxy pair takes flight
- Dusty surprise around giant black hole
| Solar splashdown provide new insights into how young stars grow by sucking up nearby gas Posted: 20 Jun 2013 01:28 PM PDT On June 7, 2011, our sun erupted, blasting tons of hot plasma into space. Some of that plasma splashed back down onto the sun's surface, sparking bright flashes of ultraviolet light. This dramatic event may provide new insights into how young stars grow by sucking up nearby gas. |
| Hubble spots galaxies in close encounter: Colliding galaxy pair takes flight Posted: 20 Jun 2013 10:22 AM PDT The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this vivid image of a pair of interacting galaxies known as Arp 142. When two galaxies stray too close to each other they begin to interact, causing spectacular changes in both objects. In some cases the two can merge — but in others, they are ripped apart. |
| Dusty surprise around giant black hole Posted: 20 Jun 2013 04:14 AM PDT ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer has gathered the most detailed observations ever of the dust around the huge black hole at the centre of an active galaxy. Rather than finding all of the glowing dust in a doughnut-shaped torus around the black hole, as expected, the astronomers find that much of it is located above and below the torus. These observations show that dust is being pushed away from the black hole as a cool wind — a surprising finding that challenges current theories and tells us how supermassive black holes evolve and interact with their surroundings. |
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