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Astonishingly old star streams may be Milky Way's building blocks
Astronomy Magazine· 5 days agoThe ancient clusters likely formed even before the Milky Way’s disk and spiral arms began taking...
The Milky Way swallowed the universe's oldest stars
Astronomy Magazine· 2 days agoTo find the universe’s oldest stars, you must look for the ones with low chemical abundances and a retrograde orbit. Using these methods, the team...
MIT researchers locate three of oldest stars in the universe hovering on outskirts of Milky Way ...
The Boston Globe· 4 days agoThis process only happened during a short window of time 13 billion years ago, Frebel said, so the...
Amateur astronomer finds 5 fascinating new galaxies — and they're now named after him
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAt this point, 9 galaxies, including the 8 dwarf satellites of the Sculptor galaxy, bear...
AI finds hidden galactic evolution clues in over 100 galaxies. Here's how
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoScientists enlisted AI to help peruse a massive dataset in search of neutral carbon absorbers in...
Webb Space Telescope Rewrites the Rules of Galactic Evolution
SciTechDaily· 2 days agoAdvanced observations by the JWST indicate that early galaxies matured faster and were less chaotic,...
Euclid telescope captures dazzling new images of cosmos
CBS News· 3 days agoA mind-boggling number of shining galaxies, a purple and orange star nursery and a spiral galaxy...
Stargazing in broad daylight: How a multi-lens telescope is changing astronomy
Phys.org· 3 days agoIn a paper published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia on 20 May, the...
How An Italian Astrophotographer Discovered Five Galaxies
PetaPixel· 1 day ago“To my knowledge, I am the first and only amateur astronomer to have galaxies named after them,”...
See Five Dazzling New Images of the Cosmos, Captured by Europe's Space Telescope
Smithsonian Magazine· 1 day agoThis week, the agency released five new images—the telescope’s second batch—which included...