Astronomers 'find oldest galaxy'
A team of Japanese astronomers using telescopes on Hawaii say they have seen the oldest galaxy, a discovery that is competing with other "earliest galaxy" claims. full story 
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Astronomers spot 'missing link' galaxy collision creating a 'supermassive' galaxy ten times the size of the Milky Way
Two hungry young galaxies that collided 11 billion years ago (pictured) are rapidly forming a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way, California astronomers have found.
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Armed Telescope
At the edges of the visible universe, 45 billion light-years away, sit some of the oldest known galaxies. How they formed and developed is a mystery, but a spectrograph installed on Chile’s Very Large Telescope—functional since March—should help astronomers find answers. The six-foot-wide, three-ton instrument contains 24 motorized robotic arms. Each eight-inch arm controls...
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Astronomers use eclipsing binary stars to determine the distance to nearby galaxy
After close to a decade of observations, astronomers have accurately determined the distance to our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The measurement, which calculates the distance at 163,000 light-years, was achieved by studying rare pairs of stars known as eclipsing binaries...
gizmag.com (2 months and 18 days ago)
Amateur Astronomers Help Find Galaxy's Arms
Citizen scientists aid observations made by space telescopes to discover previously unseen treasures. ->
discovery.com (3 months and 11 days ago)
Conscientious Galaxy Uses All Its Fuel To Make New Stars, Leaving No Waste Behind
This newly spotted galaxy is the least profligate galaxy ever seen. A newly found faraway galaxy called SDSSJ1506+54 is the most efficient star maker ever seen, using up almost all of the gas available to it. Other galaxies are more profligate with their gas, only using some of it and leaving the rest just lying there. Stars form when collapsing gas clouds condense so...
popsci.com (1 month ago)
Researchers Recruit Armchair Astronomers To Find Space Warps And Brown Dwarfs
Christopher Columbus may get the credit for discovering America, but you, dear reader, have the chance to discover your own galaxy and maybe a brown dwarf or two.
forbes.com (16 days ago)
Astronomers find 'most prolific star factory in the Universe', producing 3,000 Suns per YEAR
The galaxy, dubbed HFLS3 is 12.8 billion light-years from Earth. It was found to be 2,000 times more prolific than our own Milky Way.
dailymail.co.uk (1 month and 5 days ago)
The distance to our nearest galaxy neighbour has been measured and it is only 162,983,823 light years away
Chilean astronomers have revealed the first accurate calculation of the distance between us and our nearest galaxy.
dailymail.co.uk (2 months and 20 days ago)
Researchers measure distance to nearest galaxy
Astronomers discover the distance between us and the nearest galaxy by revising the fundamental quality of the Hubble constant
cbsnews.com (2 months and 19 days ago)
Distance to neighbouring galaxy measured
The distance to our neighbouring galaxy has been calculated more accurately than ever before, allowing astronomers to measure the expansion of our universe.
telegraph.co.uk (2 months and 20 days ago)
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