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Milky Way nights, pink lakes and safari adventures: The side of Australia most tourists never see
Explore and savour Adelaide’s breathtaking landscapes, unique wildlife and gourmet food at your own pace with direct flights ...
Milky Way's Closest Neighbor May Be Tearing Apart
Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan were surprised by their study results, which they say are "indisputable." ...
Our closest neighboring galaxy may be being torn apart
A team led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara at Nagoya University in Japan has revealed new insights into the motion of ...
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Milky Way's Black Hole: May Be Spinning Football-Shaped Spacetime Warp
The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...
Tuesday Telescope: Does this Milky Way image remind you of Powers of 10?
When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the narrator taking us both outward toward the fathomless end of the Universe ...
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 ...
Torn by Gravity: How a Cosmic Tug-of-War Is Pulling a Nearby Galaxy Apart
Astronomers have discovered that the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy, is being torn apart by the gravitational ...
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Milky Way's Enormous Black Hole
Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration" according to the European Southern Observatory. The ...