There could be a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud hurling stars at the Milky Way
Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.
X-Ray Echoes Unveil the Hidden 3D Landscape of Our Galaxy’s Heart
Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...
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NASA's Europa Clipper snaps its 1st starry image en route to Jupiter's icy moon
This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, created from three shots the solar-powered orbiter captured in December of ...
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Check Out NASA’s New Image of the Brilliant Bullseye Galaxy, the Aftermath of a Rare Cosmic Collision
After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...
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Astronomers Capture First Clear Image of a Star Beyond the Milky Way – A Cosmic Breakthrough
Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...
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NASA's launching a satellite constellation this month to study the solar wind in 3D
"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...
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The best objects to view and photograph along the Milky Way
I began photographing the Milky Way around 2018, but the hobby took off in earnest for me at the onset of the COVID years as I took myself out to remote dark sites to capture images. For many ...
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Gaia was right. It did find a planet.
The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion ...
ESA spacecraft uses 'wobbly' stars to discover huge hidden worlds
The Gaia telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy. Its findings have flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky Way on its head and have led to ...
NASA’s SPHEREx Will Unveil the Hidden Spectrum of the Cosmos
SPHEREx is a groundbreaking NASA telescope that will map the entire sky in infrared, revealing insights into cosmic inflation ...
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Nasa to launch a new telescope in February: What is SPHEREx and what will it see?
One of the key objectives of the new space observatory will be to search the Milky Way galaxy for essential building blocks ...