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    Very Metal-poor Stars in the Outer Galactic Bulge Found by the APOGEE Survey.
    Despite its importance for understanding the nature of early stellar generations and for constraining Galactic bulge formation models, at present little is...
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    Visible and near-infrared observations of asteroid 2012 DA14 during its closest approach of February 15, 2013.
    Near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA 14 made its closest approach on February 15, 2013, when it passed at a distance of 27,700 km from the Earth’s surface. It was the...
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    Which galaxies host bars and disks? A study of the Coma Cluster.
    In this work we present a recent study of the bar fraction in the ComaCluster galaxies based on a sample of ~190 galaxies selected from theSloan Digital Sky ...
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    Windspeed readings at 200 mbar at the Canary Islands observatories
    Windspeed readings taken by satellite at a height of 200 mbar (some 12 km), which have been proposed as an indicator of the observation quality of a site, give...
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    Within galaxy variations in the chemical composition are responsible for the fundamental relation
    The so-called "fundamental metallicity relation" (FMR) has been known for almost 10 years, and it states that galaxies of the same stellar mass but larger star...
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    Young stars found in the oldest and most massive galaxies in the Universe
    Elliptical and lenticular galaxies (collectively called early-type galaxies) are the oldest and most massive galaxies in the Universe. These galaxies were built...
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    ZF-UDS-7329: A relic galaxy in the early Universe
    Observations made with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed a larger-than-expected number of massive galaxies when the Universe was still young...