Mysterious Icy Objects Found in Milky Way Baffle Astronomers: Everything You Need to Know
Conflicting distance measurements have added to the uncertainty. One data source places one object at 6,500 light years away, ...
Cosmic “Ghost Towns:” Three Tiny Galaxies Unlock Ancient Universe Secrets
Rare ultra-faint dwarf galaxies beyond the influence of other galaxies show evidence that star formation was stifled long ago ...
10 mind-blowing images of Interacting Galaxies taken by NASA
In January of 2025, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope released this panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. Assembled from a total of 7,398 exposures taken over 411 individual pointings of the ...
NASA X-ray telescope Chandra discovers black holes 'blow' on their food to cool it down
Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...
7 breathtaking images of Milky Way captured by NASA
This stunning image of NGC 6951 is captured by NASA's Hubble Telescope. It is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cepheus. It is located at a distance of about 75 million light-years ...
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Scientists detect mid-infrared flare from Milky Way’s supermassive black hole
Known as Sgr A* – pronounced “Sagittarius A star” – the supermassive black hole is four million times the mass of the sun and is known to exhibit flares that can be observed in multiple wavelengths, ...
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Why This Weird Object Being Dragged into the Center of Our Galaxy Is Confusing Scientists
An elongated object near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known only as ‘X7,’ has piqued the ...
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Mid-Infrared Flare Spotted From Milky Way's Black Hole
A team of scientists including the University of Toronto's Bart Ripperda and Braden Gail - assistant professor and graduate student, respectively, at ...
Planet formation favors the metal-rich inner Milky Way, suggest scientists
Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...
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"We Are About To Learn Something New": Mystery Of "Little Red Dot" Galaxies Grows Weirder
A new preprint study has taken a closer look at the "universe-breaking" Little Red Dot galaxies discovered in the early ...
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City of Sisters recognized as 'Dark Sky Community'
Sisters has been named Oregon's newest 'Dark Sky Community,' in recognition of the city’s efforts to curb light pollution.
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Astronomers Uncover Enormous Galaxy 32 Times Larger Than the Milky Way—And It’s Breaking All the Rules
A South African telescope has identified a colossal galaxy stretching 3.3 million light-years, over 32 times the size of the ...