Thursday, August 21, 2014

ScienceDaily: Galaxies News

ScienceDaily: Galaxies News


First LOFAR observations of 'Whirlpool Galaxy'

Posted: 20 Aug 2014 06:12 AM PDT

Using a radio telescope with frequencies just above those of commercial FM radio stations, a European team of astronomers has obtained the most sensitive image of a galaxy below 1 GHz.

A spectacular landscape of star formation

Posted: 20 Aug 2014 06:12 AM PDT

A new image shows two dramatic star formation regions in the southern Milky Way. The first is of these, on the left, is dominated by the star cluster NGC 3603, located 20,000 light-years away, in the Carina–Sagittarius spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy. The second object, on the right, is a collection of glowing gas clouds known as NGC 3576 that lies only about half as far from Earth.

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