Scientists have discovered an Emerald-Cut Dwarf Galaxy which is located 70 million light-years away from Earth. The rare rectangular-shaped galaxy is located almost 70 million light-years away from us in the Eridanus Group, in the Eridanus constellation. LEDA 074886 is called the emerald-cut galaxy and was recently located by an international team of astronomers of […]
Mar 22 2012 | Posted in
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Recent astronomical simulations suggest that the enormous swirls of stars that surround NGC 5907 galaxy which is located 50 million light years away from us, in the Draco constellation, were formed when two galaxies of the same size collided about 9 billion years ago. This research was by Wang et al in the journal Astronomy […]
Feb 20 2012 | Posted in
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Cygnus X-1: A black hole whose mystery is finally unravelled For the first time in history, astronomers have been able to produce a complete description of a black hole. A black hole is concentration of mass that is so dense, even light can’t escape its powerful gravitational pull. Using several telescopes, both ground-based and in […]
Nov 19 2011 | Posted in
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