News Archive / Tagged: galaxies
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Chandra Observatory may have discovered extra-galactic planet
Laurel KornfeldNovember 6th, 2021Scientists using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory may have found evidence for the first-ever known extra-galactic planet, located 28 million light years away in the Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51 (M51).
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Scientists studying role galactic collisions have in star formation
Laurel KornfeldMarch 2nd, 2019Scientists working on a survey over the last 10 years are trying to understand why some galactic mergers trigger star formation while others shut it down.
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New mission given the go-ahead to search for beginning of universe and possibly life
Laurel KornfeldFebruary 17th, 2019A new space probe designed to observe hundreds of millions of galaxies to gain a better grasp on how the universe evolved has just been given the greenlight. This new spacecraft is also being developed to search for water and organics, the elements necessary for life as we know it.