A radio burst was pulsing from the Milky Way. Astronomers traced it to a dead star
Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...
Shockingly Tiny Galaxy Near Andromeda Is Just One-Millionth the Size of the Milky Way
Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...
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.
Astronomy's dirty window to space: A detailed map of dust in the Milky Way
When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...
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Scientists discover smallest galaxy ever seen: 'It's like having a perfectly functional human being that's the size of a grain of rice'
"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...
Are We Inside a Black Hole? Wonky Galaxy Movements Suggest It’s Possible, Physicist Says
One researcher’s analysis of Webb Space Telescope images could indicate that we’re all stuck in a black hole, according to ...
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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, ...
Energy Signals From Milky Way's Core Could Unveil New Type Of Dark Matter: Study
A new study suggests that clues about dark matter may be hidden in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone, where unexplained ...
How cosmic structures with size nearly nine times the diameter of the Milky Way shaped galaxies billions of years ago
Astronomers discover an 850,000 light-year-long cosmic filament in the early universe, providing insights into large-scale ...
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Researchers Discover Supermassive Black Hole in Neighboring Galaxy
A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...
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'This doesn't appear in computer simulations': Hubble maps chaotic history of Andromeda galaxy, and it's nothing like scientists expected
An ambitious new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope offers the first bird's-eye view of all known dwarf galaxies orbiting ...
Small, faint and 'unexpected in a lot of different ways': Dwarf galaxy discovery forces rethink of cosmic evolution
A discovery made by a team led by researchers at the University of Michigan tugs at the seams of some key cosmic lessons we ...