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Astronomers discover cool stars in nearby space

Astronomers discover cool stars in nearby space

January 29, 2010

An international team of scientists, led by astronomers at the University of Hertfordshire, have discovered what may be the coolest sub-stellar body ever found outside our own solar system. Using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) in Hawaii, observers identified an object that is technically known as a brown dwarf...

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Discovery of new stellar streams in the halo of the Andromeda galaxy - Remnants of galaxy formation processes through mergers -

Discovery of new stellar streams in the halo of the Andromeda galaxy

January 22, 2010

A team of astronomers from Tohoku University, University of Tokyo, NAOJ, University of California Santa Cruz, and other universities have discovered new stellar streams in a vast region surrounding the disk of Andromeda, in its so-called stellar halo...

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