Press Releases
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12.12.2008 |
New Planetarium at Yale Opens with Weekly Shows and Classes New Haven, Conn. — Youngsters and adults alike will soon be able to tour the cosmos without leaving their seats, thanks to the opening of a new planetarium at Yale's Leitner Family Observatory, 355 Prospect St. |
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10.07.2008 |
Big Galaxy Collisions Can Stunt Star Formation A deep new image of the Virgo cluster has revealed monumental tendrils of ionized hydrogen gas 400,000 light-years long connecting the elliptical galaxy M86 and the distributed spiral galaxy NGC4438. |
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09.18.2008 |
Astronomers Discover Most Dark Matter-Dominated Galaxy in Universe A team led by a Yale University astronomer has discovered the least luminous, most dark matter-filled galaxy known to exist. |
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09.04.2008 |
Yale Astronomer Discovers Upper Mass Limit for Black Holes There appears to be an upper limit to how big the universe’s most massive black holes can get, according to new research led by a Yale University astrophysicist. |
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08.05.2008 |
“Cosmic Ghost” Discovered by Volunteer Astronomer When Yale astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski and his colleagues at Oxford University enlisted public support in cataloguing galaxies, they never envisioned the strange object Hanny van Arkel found in archived images of the night sky. |
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04.30.2008 |
Ultra-Dense Galaxies Found in Early Universe A team of astronomers looking at the universe’s distant past found nine young, unusually compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. The findings appeared in the April 10 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters. |
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Image Credits: (header) European Space Agency & NASA
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Archives
2009
03.05.2009 | MEDIA ADVISORY: Yale Scientist Available to Speak About NASA’s Kepler Mission
2008
12.12.2008 | New Planetarium at Yale Opens with Weekly Shows and Classes
10.07.2008 | Big Galaxy Collisions Can Stunt Star Formation
09.18.2008 | Astronomers Discover Most Dark Matter-Dominated Galaxy in Universe
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