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</script></div><item><title><![CDATA[ESO's VLT Captures Stunning Image of Spiral Galaxy]]></title><description><![CDATA[During his visit to ESO's Very Large Telescope at Paranal, the European Commissioner for Science and Research, Janez Potocnik, participated in an observing sequence and took images of a beautiful spiral galaxy.<br/>The visit took place on 27 October and the Commissioner observed with one of the FORS instruments on Antu, the first 8.2-m Unit Telescope of the VLT.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41324/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41324/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Hubble Photographs Grand Design Spiral Galaxy M81]]></title><description><![CDATA[The sharpest image ever taken of the large grand design spiral galaxy Messier 81 is being released. The image, constructed from a series of images taken with NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is among the largest ever released. Messier 81 is one of the brightest galaxies that can be seen from the Earth.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22188/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22188/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Galaxy portrait reveals a blaze of newborn stars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Newborn stars shine like celestial sparklers in a new portrait of the nearby Triangulum Galaxy &#8211; the most detailed ultraviolet image of a galaxy ever taken. Astronomers will use the image, taken by NASA's Swift telescope, to create an &quot;age map&quot; of the galaxy's components to understand how galaxies evolve over time.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/52180/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/52180/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Flies In A Spider's Web: Galaxy Caught In The Making]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Hubble Space Telescope has found a large galaxy 10.6 billion light-years away from Earth that is stuffing itself with smaller galaxies caught like flies in a web of gravity. The galaxy is so far away that astronomers are seeing it as it looked in the early formative years of the Universe, only 2 billion years after the Big Bang.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/3065/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/3065/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Holiday wishes from the Hubble Space Telescope]]></title><description><![CDATA[Messier 74, also called NGC 628, is a stunning example of a 'grand-design' spiral galaxy that is viewed by Earth observers nearly face-on. Its perfectly symmetrical spiral arms emanate from the central nucleus and are dotted with clusters of young blue stars.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43181/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43181/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivers of Gas Flow Around Stars in New Space Image]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a turbulent star-forming region, where rivers of gas and stellar winds are eroding thickets of dusty material.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/84140/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/84140/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Galaxy 'missing link' uncovered]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers have identified a type of galaxy that represents a &quot;missing link&quot; in our understanding of the Universe. Spiral and elliptical galaxies used to be known exclusively as &quot;blue&quot; and &quot;red&quot;, respectively. But two studies show that one in five galaxies is a red spiral.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/82797/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/82797/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA captures image of birth of stars]]></title><description><![CDATA[A dazzlingly detailed image released by NASA scientists shows the chaotic conditions in which stars are born and die - in this case in a huge nebula in another neighbourhood of our Milky Way galaxy.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17807/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17807/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Spitzer Captures Stellar Coming of Age in Our Galaxy]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 800,000 snapshots from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have been stitched together to create a new <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2008-11/visuals.shtml" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">&quot;coming of age&quot; portrait</a> of stars in our inner Milky Way galaxy. The image depicts an area of sky 120 degrees wide by two degrees tall. <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2008-11/moreinfo.shtml" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">High-res zoomable image</a>.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/64225/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/64225/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The Thousand-Ruby Galaxy]]></title><description><![CDATA[ESO's Wide Field Imager has captured the intricate swirls of the spiral galaxy Messier 83, a smaller look-alike of our own Milky Way. Shining with the light of billions of stars and the ruby red glow of hydrogen gas, it is a beautiful example of a barred spiral galaxy, whose shape has led to it being nicknamed the Southern Pinwheel.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/74683/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/74683/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Stellar Birth in the Galactic Wilderness]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows baby stars sprouting in the backwoods of a galaxy -- a relatively desolate region of space more than 100,000 light-years from the galaxy's bustling center.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/58609/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/58609/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Astronomers map 'blue whale' of space]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australian astronomers have made the most detailed map yet of a radio galaxy, which could lead to a better understanding of these strange phenomena.<br/><br/>The map of Centaurus A, a galaxy in the Centaurus constellation, covers a segment of sky 200 times the area of the full moon.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/127546/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/127546/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Gargantuan galaxy NGC 1132 &#8211; a cosmic fossil?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the galaxy NGC 1132 which is, most likely, a cosmic fossil &#8211; the aftermath of an enormous multi-galactic pile-up, where the carnage of collision after collision has built up a brilliant but fuzzy giant elliptical galaxy far outshining typical galaxies.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/49559/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/49559/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Herschel's daring test: A glimpse of things to come]]></title><description><![CDATA[Herschel opened its 'eyes' on 14 June and the Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer obtained images of M51, 'the whirlpool galaxy' for a first test observation. Scientists obtained images in three colours from the observation, which clearly demonstrate the superiority of Herschel, the largest infrared space telescope ever flown.<br/>*<a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/113983/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Update to Autumn's post</a>*]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/124887/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/124887/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Is The Hercules Dwarf Galaxy So Flat?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Through some of the very first scientific observations with the brand-new Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) in Arizona, astronomers has found that a recently discovered tiny companion galaxy to our Milky Way, named the Hercules Dwarf Galaxy, has truly exceptional properties: while basically all of its known peers in the realm of these tiny dwarf galaxies are rather round, this galaxy at a distance of 430,000 Light Years appears highly flattened, either the shape of a disk or of a cigar.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36245/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36245/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Galaxy's spiral arms point in opposite directions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers are puzzling over a spiral galaxy whose spiral arms are wrapped in opposing directions. The unusual structure may be a lingering scar from a tussle with a smaller galaxy that was ultimately swallowed.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/46523/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/46523/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA['Olympian Galaxy' Near Andromeda Gives Clues To How Galaxies Form]]></title><description><![CDATA[A newly discovered dwarf galaxy in the Local Group has been found to have formed in a region of space far from our own and is falling into our system for the first time in its history.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21851/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21851/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Exploding star in NGC 2397]]></title><description><![CDATA[The latest image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a sharp view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2397. This image also shows a rare Hubble view of the early stages of a supernova - SN 2006bc, discovered in March 2006.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/56536/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/56536/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[New Galaxy Images Released for Hubble's 18th Birthday]]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA has released 59 new high-resolution images of galaxies colliding across the universe to mark the Hubble Space Telescope's 18th birthday.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59492/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59492/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Hubble Spies Shells of Sparkling Stars Around Quasar]]></title><description><![CDATA[What has appeared as a mild-mannered elliptical galaxy in previous studies is revealing its wild side in new images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble photos show shells of stars around a bright quasar, known as MC2 1635+119, which dominates the center of the galaxy. The shells' presence indicates a titanic clash with another galaxy in the relatively recent past.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39633/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39633/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item></channel></rss>