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Something 'kicked' this hypervelocity star racing through the Milky Way at 1.3 million miles per...
SPACE.com· 5 hours agoIf you were attacked by a ravenous vampire star or were at risk of falling into two dueling black...
Hubble Captures a Cosmic Fossil
NASA· 6 hours agoThis NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster NGC 2005. It’s not an unusual globular cluster in and of itself... 2005 is located about 750 light-years ...
Hubble Telescope maps high-speed 'burps' from nearby feeding supermassive black hole for 1st time
SPACE.com· 4 days agoUsing the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have, for the first time ever, mapped the plasma...
How are galaxies destroyed?
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoEventually, all galaxies, including our own Milky Way, will meet their end. But how do galaxies die? If you're in the mood to destroy an entire galaxy,...
Stellar Fireworks: Hubble Revisits a Strange Star’s 40-Year Nova Mystery
SciTechDaily· 5 days agoOne of the strangest of these events happened in 1975, when a nova called HM Sagittae grew 250 times...
100 years ago, our understanding of the universe exploded
The Raw Story· 3 days agoIn 1838, a nearby star appeared to wobble because our viewpoint on Earth was moving due to our...
Space Winds Unleashed: First Map of Outflows From Nearby Quasar I Zwicky 1
SciTechDaily· 1 day agoI Zwicky 1. Quasars are bright cores of galaxies powered by the supermassive black hole in their...
12 billion years of black hole history, revealed through X-rays and simulations
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoDwarf galaxies are thought to contain intermediate-mass black holes, measuring tens...describe how...
Behold! Fresh Eye Candy (and Science) from the Euclid Space Telescope
Scientific American· 3 days agoDark matter has gravity, so it influences the way normal matter moves around and clumps up in...
5 space discoveries that scientists are struggling to explain
Live Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoFrom "runaway" black holes shooting across the cosmos to secret planets in our own backyard, space...
