A star factory at the heart of our galaxy is mysterious and important
The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...
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How Many Rogue Planets Roam the Milky Way?
According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...
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JWST finds spiral galaxy about 5 times more massive than Milky Way — scientists call it 'Big Wheel'
A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion ...
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This Deep-Space Spiral Galaxy Does Something It Shouldn't
Credit: Bagchi et al, Monthly Notices of the Astronomical Society/DOI 10.1093/mnras/staf229 Scientists are scratching their heads after taking a closer look at 2MASX J23453268−0449256, a spiral galaxy ...
Just 0.4% In, Euclid’s Dark Universe Map Already Reveals 26 Million Galaxies
Euclid has opened a new window to the cosmos with its first deep sky data release, revealing millions of galaxies, ...
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The most successful space telescope you never heard of just shut down
On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...
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The Best Space Telescope You Never Heard Of Just Shut Down
To take just one example, Gaia improved our understanding of the structure of our own galaxy by showing that it has multiple ...
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Here's Why We Still Don't Know How Many Solar Systems Are In The Milky Way
We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...
10 mesmerising galaxy images shared by NASA
Scientists, using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, have found that the Milky Way’s graceful spiral structure is primarily shaped by two arms extending from a central bar of stars.