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Milky Way's halo is filled with 'magnetic donuts' as wide as 100,000 light-years
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAstronomers have determined that the Milky Way's outer halo is filled with "magnetic donuts" that...
Universe's oldest known stars found in Milky Way's 'halo'
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThree of the oldest known stars in the universe were found in the Milky Way’s main galactic disk....
Some of the universe's oldest stars have been discovered in the Milky Way
Quartz· 5 days agoThe stars are in the Milky Way’s halo, a shroud of stars that surrounds the galactic disk. The stars...
Missed the northern lights? Here are the best places to stargaze in Colorado this summer
The Coloradoan via Yahoo News· 24 hours agoWhile the park is open daily, year-round, the archaeological sites and some trails close at sunset....
Astronomers say we may live at the center of a cosmic void 2 billion light-years wide that defies...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 4 days agoBanik coauthored a paper published late last year in the peer-reviewed journal Monthly Notices of...
For a second year in row, Canadian wildfire smoke prompts health alerts for Midwest
WBNS-10TV Columbus· 6 days agoThe National Weather Service said smoke could reach as far south as Iowa and Chicago by late...
Hidden in the Halo: MIT Researchers Discover the Universe’s Oldest Stars
SciTechDaily· 3 days agoAstronomers discovered three ancient stars circling the Milky Way’s halo, formed 12-13 billion years...
Not All Black Holes are Ravenous Gluttons
Universe Today· 2 days agoObservations from the now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope help show why that is. It appears that every large galaxy has an SMBH at its heart. This is...
Take a mind-bending plunge into a supermassive black hole
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 3 days agoNow, Jeremy Schnittman and Brian Powell, two scientists at NASA... Center, used a supercomputer to...
New Earth-sized planet discovered next to star that will outlive the Sun
The Independent via Yahoo News· 4 days agoLittle is known about ultra-cool dwarf stars due to their low luminosity, however they are...