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Astronomy: Unfolding formation of a massive star in action

Using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico, astronomers studied a youthful star catalogued as W75N(B)-VLA 2...

Robert MylesApril 3, 2015

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And now the galaxy’s weather forecast: Showers in central parts

In terrestrial terms precipitation usually refers to rain or snowfall but in the cosmos it’s the name given to a mechanism whereby clouds of...

Robert MylesMarch 5, 2015

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Hubble telescope’s high def images of iconic Pillars of Creation

But few of these images can better one taken in 1995 of the so-called “Pillars of Creation,” massive, billowing towers of interstellar gas and...

Robert MylesJanuary 7, 2015