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| Mining data archives yields haul of 'red nuggets' galaxies Posted: 11 Jun 2014 12:11 PM PDT The world of astronomy has changed. An astronomer used to have to travel to a remote location and endure long, cold nights, patiently guiding a telescope to collect precious photons of light. Now, a proliferation of online archives allows astronomers to make discoveries from the comfort of their own offices. By mining such archives, a team of astronomers has found a treasure trove of 'red nugget' galaxies. |
| Grand swirls from NASA's Hubble: Intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1566 Posted: 11 Jun 2014 10:40 AM PDT A new Hubble image shows NGC 1566, a beautiful galaxy located approximately 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Dorado (The Dolphinfish). NGC 1566 is an intermediate spiral galaxy, meaning that while it does not have a well-defined bar-shaped region of stars at its center -- like barred spirals -- it is not quite an unbarred spiral either. |
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