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Does the Milky Way orbit anything?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoThis illustration shows the Milky Way, our home galaxy. It seems like everything orbits something in space. Moons orbit planets. Planets orbit stars....
Record breaker! New fastest star zooms through Milky Way at 5 million mph
Space via Yahoo News· 12 months agoa bright white star zooming through space Six new runaway stars were discovered racing through the...
Ultra-faint mini-galaxy found around the Milky Way’s sibling Andromeda
SYFY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAstronomers have found an extremely faint and tiny galaxy in our cosmic neighbor’s back yard, and...
Newfound ultra-faint dwarf galaxies are 'pristine fossils of the early universe'
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPictured is one of the three galaxies, Scl-MM-dw5, with its stars clustered at center. Three...
Our big universe full of wonder
Las Cruces Sun-News via Yahoo News· 4 months agoDo you ever wonder where you live? No really- I mean where you really live. If, like the author, you reside in Las Cruces, then you live in the northern...
Listen to the Eerie Vibrations of ‘Starquakes,’ Which Change the Shapes of Stars
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoThe European Space Agency’s Gaia observatory has recorded data on starquakes in the Milky Way. Its...
See 1,900 galaxies light up the night in gorgeous deep-sky photo
Space via Yahoo News· 11 months agodeep sky image of galaxies showing numerous galaxies and stars Miguel Claro is a professional...
James Webb Space Telescope tracks a galaxy's history back to just after the Big Bang
Space via Yahoo News· 4 months agoUsing the James Webb Space Telescope astronomers have zoomed in on a dwarf galaxy in the Milky Way's...
Blue blobs turn out to be orphan star clusters made of gas cast-off from galaxies
SYFY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAstronomers have discovered a new kind of star system: Elongated and clumpy clusters of young, hot,...
Space photo of the week: Hubble spies a dwarf galaxy
Live Science via Yahoo News· 5 months agoUGC 8091 is a dwarf irregular galaxy about 7 million light-years away from our solar system. What it is: The irregular dwarf galaxy UGC 8091 When it was...