By Leonidas Papadopoulos, on August 19th, 2015 A composite image of a galaxy as seen in different wavelengths by the GAMA survey. The results of the survey, which studied more than 200,000 galaxies in the local Universe, revealed that the latter’s total energy output has decreased by at least 50 percent during the last 2 billion years. Image Credit: ICRAR/GAMA […]
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By Leonidas Papadopoulos, on April 29th, 2015 A stunning image of a giant cluster of about 3,000 stars, called Westerlund 2, which lies approximately 20,000 light-years away from Earth. This image was officially selected by NASA to commemorate the 25th anniversary since the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, on April 24, 1990. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage […]
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By Leonidas Papadopoulos, on May 15th, 2014 A visible image of the star HD 162826 (at right) in the constellation of Hercules, taken from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS). A new study has identified the star as a being a solar sibling, thought to have been formed inside the same interstellar gas cloud that also gave birth to the Sun. […]
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