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		<title>It&#8217;s back and it&#8217;s better than ever</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No it&#8217;s not the return of Red Dwarf to our TV screens*, it&#8217;s the new Galaxy Zoo that has got the blogosphere (and indeed the TV) buzzing. To refresh your memory, Galaxy Zoo is the online citizen science project, headed by Dr Chris Lintott, that gives members of the public the chance to help do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&#038;blog=2757830&#038;post=1320&#038;subd=willgater&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Milky Way metro?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Artist&#8217;s impression of the Milky Way Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech When I started my degree in London years ago one of the first things I had to get to grips with was navigating the Tube. Fortunately it took no time at all, thanks to the world famous tube map, originally designed by Harry Beck in the 1930s. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&#038;blog=2757830&#038;post=1129&#038;subd=willgater&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Super sharp Hubble shows stars in nearby galaxies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hubble Space Telescope is renowned for its incredible resolution used in studying the depths of the Universe &#8211; from the earliest galaxies to some of the grandest spirals. Recently though it has been using these superb capabilities to observe nearby galaxies &#8211; that is, a selection of galaxies between about 7 and 13 million [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&#038;blog=2757830&#038;post=572&#038;subd=willgater&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A prodigious pinwheel shines in the darkness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stunning galaxy M83. Credit: ESO My first press release for the European Southern Observatory has now been released. It accompanies what is, of course, the real interest in the story &#8211; a fantastic new image from the observatory&#8217;s Wild Field Imager camera. It shows the stunning spiral galaxy M83, arguably one of the most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&#038;blog=2757830&#038;post=470&#038;subd=willgater&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hubble&#8217;s magnificent mergers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK I admit it. Galaxies are my favourite objects that the Hubble Space Telescope studies and images. But it&#8217;s true; there&#8217;s something so awesome about the HST images that ooze detail in a way that captures the vast and magnificent nature of these &#8216;stellar cities&#8217;. But it&#8217;s not all about the pictures. Hubble has allowed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&#038;blog=2757830&#038;post=125&#038;subd=willgater&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NAM news 2: Massive starburst in the early Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Scott Chapman from the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge has just presented the latest results from a collaboration between the MERLIN UK radio telescope array, Keck (at optical wavelengths), the VLA in the US and the Plateau de Bure submillimetre observatory in France. The results show that there was a group of galaxies in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&#038;blog=2757830&#038;post=113&#038;subd=willgater&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A grand design in a galactic festoon&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://willgater.com/2007/11/29/a-grand-design-in-a-galactic-festoon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest Hubblecast is now out! In this episode we present a new stunning Hubble image. M74 is a beautiful spiral galaxy located 32 million light years away. Hubble imaged the galaxy with its Advanced Camera for Surveys between 2003 and 2005. &#8220;Messier 74, also called NGC 628, is a stunning example of a &#8216;grand-design&#8217; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&#038;blog=2757830&#038;post=42&#038;subd=willgater&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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