Nov 6th, 2009 - AOL News
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(Nov. 5) — The Hubble Space Telescope's powerful new camera has taken the most detailed image yet of star birth in the nearby spiral galaxy M83.
Nicknamed the Southern Pinwheel, M83 is undergoing more rapid star formation than our own Milky Way galaxy, especially in its nucleus.
In this galaxy, the sharp eye of the Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) — newly installed this summer during the telescope's fourth and final servicing mission — has captured hundreds of young star clusters, ancient swarms of globular star clusters, and hundreds of thousands of individual stars, mostly blue supergiants and red supergiants.
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Gamma-Ray Mystery Traced to Star-Birth Frenzy
Nov 2nd, 2009 - Wired
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Astronomers have for the first time traced gamma rays, the most energetic form of light, to galaxies undergoing a frenzy of star birth. The finding, which has revealed a new class of galactic gamma-ray sources, is not unexpected...
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