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Milky Way
The gigantic structure of 2.3 light-years in length near a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A * baffles astronomers. It turns out that at the center of our galaxy, at around 26,000 light ye…
A stunning new visualization by NASA lets you explore massive stars, and supermassive black holes located at the heart of the Milky Way. Explore, like never before, our cosmic neighborhood and enjoy …
France is set to launch a champagne box-sized mini satellite into Earth orbit on Friday to study a mysterious, juvenile planet system in our Milky Way galaxy, mission controllers said. The PicSat orb…
The beautiful spiral galaxy visible in the center of the image is known as RX J1140.1+0307 , a galaxy in the Virgo constellation imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and it presents an inte…
Think of the Milky Way—or search for pictures of it online—and you’ll see images of a standard spiral galaxy viewed face-on, a sprawling pinwheel of starlight and dust containing hundreds of billions…
A photo of our galactic neighbor Andromeda has revealed a surprise subject - an X-ray source initially thought to be inside Andromeda, but which turned out to be 1,000 times farther away. Using dat…
Astrophysicists inspecting the skies just got a massive surprise. They discovered a huge galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, haven’t seen before. It just came out of nowhere. So, how did the recently-dis…
The latest discovery of a massive halo of hot gas close to Andromeda Galaxy shows that our galaxies are already touching. Astronomers Nicholas Lehner from Notre Dame University led a team of resear…
Our very own Milky Way could host a huge bridge in space-time. At least, that’s what the authors of a recent study have suggested. According to the group, teamwork between Indian, Italian, and North…
According to the best estimates of astronomers from around the world, there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe. That doesn't even include the parts of our univer…
Astrophysicists from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy, speculated in a 2015 study that wormholes, predicted by Einstein in his theory of General Relativity as a…
Using the light-warping effects of gravity, astronomers have detected a massive object right in the center of our galaxy. The universe is teeming with cranky objects that simply don’t fall into cert…
One of the strangest things about interstellar visitor Oumuamua is that when it flew right by the sun, it didn't get a comet-like tail. Scientists now believe that's because it's coated i…
European Southern Observatory/Flickr Researchers have found a hidden dwarf galaxy revolving around our own Milky Way, and it could revolutionize our understanding of how dark matter grips galaxies to…
Using observations from Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope and Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE), astronomers from Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute have discovered a massive…
So, you think you know the Milky Way? Well you don't. This new Milky Way map from NASA displays the exo-planets we've discovered so far, counting the newly confirmed exoplanet 13,000 light ye…
Being unable to see the wood for the trees is a fairly common idiom, though we could just as easily say we can't see the Milky Way for the stars. Thanks to recent research based on an old astrono…
