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🚀 Space Frontier Dec 30, 2025 3 min read

Astronomers Discover Spectacular Bipolar Outflow in Nearby Galaxy

An international team of astronomers using the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) has made a groundbreaking discovery in a nearby galaxy, uncovering a spectacular bipolar outflow emanating from its disk. The finding, reported in a recent paper, sheds new light on the dynamics of galaxy evolution. Located in the southern constellation of Centaurus, the galaxy ESO 130-G012 is now at the center of attention in the astronomical community.

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🚀 Space Frontier Dec 30, 2025

Astronomers Discover Spectacular Galaxy Outflow Using ASKAP Telescope

A team of international astronomers has made a groundbreaking discovery using the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope, uncovering a massive bipolar outflow emanating from the disk of a nearby galaxy known as ESO 130-G012. This extraordinary find sheds new light on the complex processes driving galaxy evolution. The discovery was published in a paper on the pre-print server arXiv.

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