Date: 23 Oct 2006 15:31:48
From: Magnificent Universe
Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Hubble Finds Thousands of Stars Without Galaxies
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Most of the intergalactic stars in the Virgo cluster are old and
surprisingly metal-poor, say astronomers who have used the Hubble Space
Telescope to discover thousands of such stars. The low metallicity suggests
that the stars were born both in small Virgo galaxies which disintegrated
and at the edges of the large galaxies which tore the small ones apart. For
the full story, including a beautiful, never-before-published color image
from the Hubble Space Telescope, see
http://KenCroswell.com/VirgoIntergalactic.html .
Other recent stories:
An Ocean on Neptune? http://KenCroswell.com/NeptuneOcean.html
How bright would Pluto be if it were as close as Mars?
http://KenCroswell.com/PlutoQuestion.html
A white dwarf may have escaped from the Pleiades:
http://KenCroswell.com/GD50.html
All articles are available at http://KenCroswell.com/articles.html .
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