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Alien Structures or Shock Waves? Strange Filaments Discovered in the Milky Way Baffle Astronomers
ALMA has revealed evidence of a new type of slim, filamentary structure that drives cycles of depletion and replenishment. At ...
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This Nearby Galaxy Is Being Shredded Right Before Our Eyes
New research based on data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has revealed that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC ...
Hubble unveils first images of ongoing star cluster mergers near center of dwarf galaxies
A new study reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. This ...
Stars That Sing: How Hidden Frequencies Unravel the Milky Way’s Mysteries
A team of UNSW Sydney researchers has unlocked the "sounds" of stars to better understand their age, mass, and evolutionary ...
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Trillions of Rogue Planets
Astronomers discovered FFPs (free floating planets- rogue planets) more than 20 years ago, using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope in Hawaii. Since then, ...
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'200,000 light-years away': ESA’s Gaia Telescope discovers one galaxy tearing apart another near the Milky Way
The SMC and LMC are part of a group of galaxies gravitationally bound to the Milky Way. Both are expected to eventually merge with our galaxy in a few billion years. However, current evidence ...
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Will Dunham
In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the time, they believed the planet met its doom as the star puffed up late in ...