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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...
NASA telescope spots 'cosmic fireworks' and faint echos from theMilky Way's supermassive black hole
Space via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThese signals had previously been missed by astronomers. "We are sitting in the front row to observe...
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...
Hypervelocity Star Spotted Racing Through the Milky Way at 1.3 Million MPH
SciTechDaily· 2 days agoIt may seem like the Sun is stationary while the planets in its orbit are moving, but the Sun is...
5 space discoveries that scientists are struggling to explain
Live Science via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoFrom "runaway" black holes shooting across the cosmos to secret planets in our own backyard, space...
100 years ago, our understanding of the universe exploded
The Raw Story· 11 hours agoIn 1838, a nearby star appeared to wobble because our viewpoint on Earth was moving due to our...
How did a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way come to be?
Science Daily· 4 days agoA satellite galaxy is a smaller galaxy that orbits a larger host galaxy. Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe's matter, and it can ...
A Portal to the Past: Hubble Reveals an Ancient Witness to a Galactic Merger
SciTechDaily· 5 days agoThis mesmerizing image from the Hubble Space Telescope features the globular cluster NGC 2005. NGC 2005 is located about 750 light-years from the heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which ...
A Giant Interstellar Cloud May Have Once Enveloped Earth, Potentially Causing Ice Ages
Smithsonian Magazine· 13 hours agoNow, research published this week in the journal Nature Astronomy offers another hypothesis of...
MSU researchers unveil secrets of our galaxy’s | Newswise
Newswise· 4 days agoMichigan State University researchers led by Shuo Zhang, have presented new findings that will help scientists better understand the supermassive black hole at the center ...