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A Primordial Star Forming Galaxy

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Galaxies with extremely high rates of star formation (from hundreds to thousands of solar-masses worth of stars per year) are rare. Our Milky Way, for example, makes only about one star ...

Making Stars When the Universe was Half Its Age

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The universe is about 13.8 billion years old, and its stars are arguably its most momentous handiwork. Astronomers studying the intricacies of star formation across cosmic time are tryin...

Ricocheting Black Hole Jet Discovered by Chandra

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Cambridge, MA - Astronomers have discovered behavior by a jet from a giant black hole that has never been seen before. Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory they have observed a jet t...

The Disintegrating Exoplanet K2-22b

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Exoplanet surveys have yielded many surprises over the years, and the discovery of "disintegrating" exoplanets was one of them. These are planets that produce asymmetric shapes in the di...

Chandra Detection of a Circumnuclear Torus

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Most galaxies host supermassive black holes at their nuclei, each with millions or billions of solar-masses of material. There is thought to be a torus of dust and gas around the black ...

A New Neptune-Size Exoplanet

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The remarkable exoplanet discoveries made by the Kepler and K2 missions have enabled astronomers to begin to piece together the history of the Earth and to understand how and why it diffe...
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