<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>Hidden Galaxies Detected : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>Hidden Galaxies Detected : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden Galaxies Detected]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36542/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Deer can't see cars at night because of blindingly bright headlights. And until now, astronomers couldn't see foreground galaxies outshined by the dazzling quasars behind them. A new technique can pick apart the intense pattern of light emitted by quasars, finding irregularities in the image where &quot;invisible&quot; galaxies are absorbing some of the quasar light.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space telescope unveils hidden cosmic giant]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44294/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Astronomers from SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research have discovered a new cluster of galaxies, hidden behind a previously identified cluster of galaxies. The recently exposed cosmic giant is apparently just as bright as the first group, but is six times further away. The astronomers made the discovery as part of an international team using the space telescope XMM-Newton.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quasars Caught Eating Galaxies ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31123/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Astronomers have found the first direct evidence that some quasars fuel their bright energy emissions by feeding on gas from external sources, probably neighboring galaxies.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cosmic Bird? Triple Cosmic Collision Of Galaxies Stuns Astronomers]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/47653/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered a stunning rare case of a triple merger of galaxies. This system, which astronomers have dubbed 'The Bird' - albeit it also bears resemblance with a cosmic Tinker Bell - is composed of two massive spiral galaxies and a third irregular galaxy.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultra-dense galaxies found in early universe]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/60079/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A team of astronomers looking at the universe&#8217;s distant past found nine young, unusually compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun.<br/><br/>These young galaxies are the equivalent of a human baby that is 20 inches long, yet weighs 180 pounds.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hubble sees the graceful dance of two interacting galaxies]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40128/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Two galaxies perform an intricate dance in this new Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxies, containing a vast number of stars, swing past each other in a graceful performance choreographed by gravity.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[VLT images triplet of dancing galaxies]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48297/1/</link><description><![CDATA[An image based on data taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope reveals a triplet of galaxies intertwined in a cosmic dance. The three galaxies, catalogued as NGC 7173 (top), 7174 (bottom right) and 7176 (bottom left), are located 106 million light-years away towards the constellation of Piscis Austrinus (the 'Southern Fish').]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violent lives of galaxies: Caught in the cosmic matter web]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/47168/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to dissect one of the largest structures in the Universe as part of a quest to understand the violent lives of galaxies. Hubble is providing indirect evidence of unseen dark matter tugging on galaxies in the crowded, rough-and-tumble environment of a massive supercluster of hundreds of galaxies.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quasars Quash Star Formation In Active Galactic Nuclei]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/57734/1/</link><description><![CDATA[An ambitious study of active and inactive galaxies has given new insights into the complex interaction between super-massive black holes at the heart of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and star formation in the surrounding galaxy.  The study finds that gas ejected during the quasar stage of AGN snuffs out star formation, leaving the host galaxies to evolve passively.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dark energy makes galaxies keep their distance]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/49338/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Galaxies today are struggling to clump together against the incredible repulsive power of dark energy, hints a new survey of thousands of galaxies. Measuring this anti-clumping effect puts a new arrow in the quiver of cosmologists seeking to uncover the nature of the mysterious force.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even thin galaxies pack hefty black holes]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/46826/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A half-dozen hefty black holes hide out where they are least expected, in relatively skinny galaxies. The discovery implies galaxies don't need bulging bellies to harbor monstrous black holes.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Pool of Distant Galaxies &#8211; the deepest ultraviolet image of the Universe yet]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/81574/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has wondered what it might be like to dive into a pool of millions of distant galaxies of different shapes and colours, will enjoy the latest image released by ESO. Obtained in part with the Very Large Telescope, the image is the deepest ground-based U-band image of the Universe ever obtained. It contains more than 27 million pixels and is the result of 55 hours of observations with the VIMOS instrument.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astronomers observe acidic Milky Way galaxies]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42558/1/</link><description><![CDATA[SRON astronomer Floris van der Tak is the first to have observed acidic particulate clouds outside of our own Milky Way galaxy. He did this by focusing the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, located on Hawaii, on two nearby Milky Way galaxies. Astronomers think that acidification inhibits the formation of stars and planets in the dust clouds.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giant ropes of dark matter found in new sky survey]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/51639/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Huge filaments of dark matter have been detected in a survey of thousands of distant galaxies. The discovery supports the idea that dark matter drove the formation of galaxies and larger cosmic structures and resolves a discrepancy in previous studies about how much dark matter the universe contains.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infrared galaxies didn't always prefer the 'suburbs']]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38849/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Dusty infrared galaxies are cosmic &quot;nurseries&quot; for some of the universe's hottest young stars -- and new research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows that when the universe was approximately six billion years old, these galaxies packed into the densest &quot;zip codes&quot; in space. Astronomers hope that this latest finding will give them insights into why the modern universe looks the way it does.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old galaxies stick together in the young universe]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/58443/1/</link><description><![CDATA[UK astronomers have developed the most sensitive infrared map of the distant universe ever produced, revealing the origins of the most massive galaxies in the cosmos. Using images obtained with the United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope (UKIRT), astronomers combined data over a period of three years. This produced a map encompassing more than 100,000 galaxies over an area of sky four times the size of the full moon.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small 'Hobbit' Galaxies Made Almost Entirely of Dark Matter ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35405/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Small, ultrafaint &quot;hobbit&quot; galaxies recently found hovering around our Milky Way are comprised almost entirely of dark matter, a new study confirms. Dark matter is a mysterious substance scientists think accounts for most of the mass in the universe but that is invisible to current instruments.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlocking Galactic Mysteries, Star Formation, Dark Matter]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/47437/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Astronomers have produced a scientific gold mine of detailed, high-quality images of nearby galaxies that is yielding important new insights into many aspects of galaxies, including their complex structures, how they form stars, the motions of gas in the galaxies, the relationship of &quot;normal&quot; matter to unseen &quot;dark matter,&quot; and many others.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ghosts of galaxies]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/58497/1/</link><description><![CDATA[An international team of astronomers has identified huge star streams in the outskirts of two nearby spiral galaxies. For the first time, they have obtained a panoramic overview of an example of galactic cannibalism similar to that involving the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in the vicinity of the Milky Way.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giant galaxy cluster seen in early universe]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/73810/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Astronomers have glimpsed the largest cluster of galaxies ever seen in the distant, early universe. The discovery of this far-off group, estimated to contain as much mass as a thousand large galaxies, offers further proof of the existence of the enigmatic force called dark energy.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Galaxy Formation: A Clumpy Affair]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/76245/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Astronomers have argued for years over whether massive galaxies form from scratch, or by chunking together smaller galaxies. Lately, evidence is building for the latter theory, and a new study adds to the growing picture of galaxy formation as a clumpy affair.]]></description></item></channel></rss>