Friday, November 22, 2013

ScienceDaily: Galaxies News

ScienceDaily: Galaxies News


Monster gamma-ray burst in our cosmic neighborhood

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 11:22 AM PST

Gamma-ray bursts are violent bursts of gamma radiation associated with exploding massive stars. For the first time ever, researchers have observed an unusually powerful gamma-ray burst in the relatively nearby universe -- a monster gamma-ray burst.

Infant galaxies merging near 'cosmic dawn'

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 07:36 AM PST

Astronomers using the combined power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a far-flung trio of primitive galaxies nestled inside an enormous blob of primordial gas nearly 13 billion light-years from Earth.

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