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Article: New grasp of galaxies: varied - and violent.(USA)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- January 10, 2001
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Some 75 years ago, Edwin Hubble trained his telescopes at a faint point of light in the constellation of Andromeda and revolutionized astronomy. Where others had only seen a star or cloud of cosmic dust, he saw a whole new system of stars, for the first time proving that galaxies exist outside our Milky Way.
Today, at the turn of a new century, the orbiting telescope that carries Hubble's name is leading another astronomical renaissance. And this time, the research is changing fundamental ideas about some of the most massive objects of creation.
Individually, none of the new discoveries is as groundbreaking as Hubble's seminal find. Taken together, ...