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Gemini and ALMA observations of a bright starburst clump on an outer arm of the interacting galaxy NGC 2207 reveal activity that suggests the grazing galaxy collision indirectly triggered the starburst.
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A new census of ultracompact massive galaxies (UCMGs) has discovered 19 new confirmed UCMGs at low and intermediate redshifts, contributing to the largest sample of UCMGs ever collected.
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NuSTAR and SDO/AIA have captured one of the weakest active region microflares — small releases of stored magnetic energy — ever studied, providing insight into the tiny flares thought to be ubiquitous phenomena.
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From a population of known near-Earth objects (NEOs), a manual search of all-sky infrared NEOWISE data has identified observations of more than 200 of these NEOs not previously characterized.
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The decreasing orbital period of the hot Jupiter WASP-4b is not due to tidal decay, but rather due to the acceleration of the WASP-4 system toward us along our line of sight, possibly caused by a wide companion.
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A catalog of 99,203 probable wide binary systems identified from Gaia data demonstrates that the distribution of projected physical separation for probable wide binaries is a simple exponential tail.