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The Milky Way's last major act of galactic cannibalism was surprisingly recent
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoGaia discovers the Milky Way's last major act of galactic cannibalism was surprisingly recent, as...
Hubble Captures a Cosmic Fossil - NASA
NASA· 1 day agoIt’s not an unusual globular cluster in and of itself, but it is a peculiarity when compared to its surroundings. NGC 2005 is located about 750...
‘Dyson spheres’ were theorized as a way to detect alien life. Scientists say they’ve found potential...
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 days agoNew research suggests stars in the Milky Way give off infrared heat expected from Dyson spheres,...
NASA telescope spots 'cosmic fireworks' and faint echos from theMilky Way's supermassive black hole
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThat means by analyzing this X-ray echo, Uteg has been able to begin reconstructing the recent...
100 years ago, our understanding of the universe exploded
The Raw Story· 16 hours agoIn 1838, a nearby star appeared to wobble because our viewpoint on Earth was moving due to our...
How the Webb and Gaia missions bring a new perspective on galaxy formation
Ars Technica· 5 days agoIn a feat of galactic archeology, astronomers are using ever more detailed information to trace the...
Behold! Fresh Eye Candy (and Science) from the Euclid Space Telescope
Scientific American· 23 hours 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· 18 hours agoFrom "runaway" black holes shooting across the cosmos to secret planets in our own backyard, space...
Youthful galaxy in the early universe was a heavy metal rebel
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days ago"It's just an embryo of a galaxy when we observe it, but it could evolve into something quite big,...
Astronomers get closer to solving the lingering mystery of fast radio bursts
SPACE.com· 15 hours agoFast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense, short-lived blasts of radio waves hailing from beyond the Milky Way that can emit the same amount ...
