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This image of a cosmic microwave background ... Milky Way to the unimaginable immensity of myriad galaxies. -- Saturday, April 19, 7 p.m.: “Liquid Sky: Pink Floyd’s ‘The Dark Side of the Moon.’” Enjoy ...
The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C (Sgr C). Reported to be around 300 light-years from the Milky Way’s central ...
ALMA has revealed evidence of a new type of slim, filamentary structure that drives cycles of depletion and replenishment. At ...
Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond. It is difficult to capture the breadth of ...
Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* has been sonified by SYSTEM Sounds. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO ...
First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way's core, appears to be ionized (meaning it is electrically charged because it has lost electrons ...
Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...
Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region ... stripping the region of the matter it needs to build more new stars. "Even the sun, we think ...
On Friday (11 April), the brand launched the first OREO cookie into the Milky Way with space agency Sent Into Space, in collaboration with Leo Burnett Indonesia. The launch featured a custom ...
This "twin" of the Milky Way existed just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, challenging our theories of galactic evolution. Previously, it was believed that galaxies like ours would take ...
Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...
The Milky Way Tech Hub will launch a new mastermind group in May to build community and provide support for entrepreneurs around the country. The Milky Way Tech Hub, a Milwaukee-based initiative that ...