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James Webb telescope captures 1st 'mid-infrared' flare from Milky Way's supermassive black hole
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
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Young stars in the Milky Way's back yard challenge our understanding of how they form
Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...
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Check Out the Hubble Space Telescope’s Stunning New View of the Andromeda Galaxy
The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...
Goodbye to the Sun in the Milky Way: experts' warning that could change humanity
The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...
Goodnight, Gaia! ESA spacecraft shuts down after 12 years of Milky Way mapping
Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 ...
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What If Earth Orbited The Largest Known Star in the Milky Way Galaxy
"What If is an epic exploration of possibilities. What If is a Webby Award-winning science web series that takes you on a journey through hypothetical worlds and possibilities, some in distant corners ...
Got a telescope? Bid farewell to ESA's retiring Milky Way mapper
In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...
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1st supernovas may have flooded the early universe with water — making life possible just 100 million years after the Big Bang
A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...
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Star formation 'reignited' in the galaxy Leo P after billions of years
Leo P, a tiny galaxy, stopped making stars after the universe’s reionization. Unlike most galaxies, it restarted billions of ...
The Star That Proved the Universe Is Bigger Than We Imagined
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
Astrophysically-Elusive Phosphorus Is Key To All Life On Earth
Crucial to all life on Earth, the 15th element of phosphorus remains a real puzzle for astronomers. Specialized space ...
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Something invisible and 'fuzzy' may lurk at the Milky Way's center, new research suggests
An illustration of "hairy" dark matter around Earth. A new study proposes that clumps of dark matter might form huge, ...