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A view of the spiral galaxy NGC 3982, as seen by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Galaxies come in many different variations, but astronomers classify them into four main types: spiral, elliptical ...

The space industry has a new entrant: OmegA, an intermediate- to heavy-class rocket built by Orbital ATK that could launch from KSC in 2021.

“Omega C,” short for “Omega Centauri,” takes inspiration from the alpha and omega on church candles and the Alpha Centauri star system. “I like seeing things in their entire scale from ...

Data from the Chandra X-ray Telescope has revealed spider pulsars, which are a group of dead stars, in globular cluster Omega Centauri "preying' on nearby stars. The Chandra team explains.

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a cluster of stellar-mass black holes. New research may have delivered bad ...

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a cluster of stellar-mass black holes.

References Andr'es Bañares-Hernández et al, New constraints on the central mass contents of Omega Centauri from combined stellar kinematics and pulsar timing, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2024).

Omega Centauri is an ideal environment to study models of their formation, which we have been able to do for the first time in our analysis." Story Source: Materials provided by University of Surrey.