Mysterious radio pulses from the Milky Way ‘are unlike anything we knew before’
Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...
10 Astonishing Things You Should Know About the Milky Way
The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.
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Small, faint and 'unexpected in a lot of different ways': U-M astronomers make galactic discovery
The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV—located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the ...
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The Beast’s environment: How a supermassive black hole shapes the fate of the Milky Way
At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...
Amazing Milky Way photo shows Earth from a unique perspective
Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...
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Speeding star offers a rare glimpse of the Milky Way's galactic centre
A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per second, giving astronomers ...
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Photo of the Day: Milky Way and Haleakala
Today's photo of the day, “Milky Way and Haleakala,” comes to us via Todd Kozan. Send your best photos from Maui County to ...
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A new way to measure where the Milky Way’s dark matter is
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, causing the larger galaxy to “wobble,” imparting ...
NASA SPHEREx Telescope Is Launched to Study Universe's Origins
The U.S. space agency's megaphone-shaped SPHEREx - short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...
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Small, faint and 'unexpected in a lot of different ways': Astronomers make galactic discovery
The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the Andromeda system -- is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies ...