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Does the Milky Way orbit anything?
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoMoons orbit planets. Planets orbit stars. Stars orbit the centers of galaxies. But beyond that, things get a little harder to visualize. Do galaxies —...
Bejeweled galaxy of 'Bernice's Hair' sparkles in new Hubble Telescope photo
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoCompared to Webb, Hubble offers a more accurate assessment of the stellar populations of nearby...
Three of the universe's oldest stars have just been identified — and they're in our cosmic backyard
GBH News· 2 days agoThree undergraduate students in an astronomy class at MIT, led by their professor, discovered something extraordinary on the edge of our own galaxy, the Milky Way ...
Tweaked Formula on Alien Intelligence Hints That We're Truly Alone in the Galaxy
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoThis week at the Gizmodo science desk, deputy editor George Dvorsky reported on a modification to...
Here's how you can look up at the stars under the dark Grand Canyon skies
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoJune 7: Tim Straub, will give a presentation about eclipses. June 8: Jason Hoover, will give a presentation about Milky Way photography. Why should you ...
New Webb image isn't just stunning. It shattered a record.
Mashable· 10 hours agoThe James Webb Space Telescope — with a giant mirror that catches extremely faint light, along with its ability to view a type of light (infrared) that can pass through huge clouds of cosmic ...
The 8 most extraordinary JWST images of 2024, so far
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 6 days agoLeroy, J. Lee and the PHANGS Team ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy, Data from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes was combined to capture this image...
The Weird, Wild and Wonderful Universe, According to the Internet's Favorite Astronomer
Smithsonian Magazine· 1 day agoPhilip Plait is a science communicator and astronomer, one who was part of NASA’s Hubble Space...
Elusive medium-size black holes may form in dense 'birthing nests'
SPACE.com· 2 days agoAn intermediate-mass black hole has a mass between 100 and 10,000 suns. Designated GCIRS 13E, it has...
Take a bite out of these fun exhibits about sharks and dogs
San Antonio Express-News· 1 day agoAt the Witte, “Sharks” is a deep dive into the ocean-dwellers, with an emphasis on conservation as...
