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Enormous explosion in 'Cigar Galaxy' reveals rare type of star never seen beyond the Milky Way
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAn incredibly brief, ultrabright explosion has led astronomers to a newfound magnetic star outside...
How many times has the sun traveled around the Milky Way?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 4 months agoOur solar system has been orbiting the Milky Way's black hole heart for 4.6 billion years. But it is...
How do we know what the Milky Way looks like?
Space via Yahoo News· 3 months agoDirectly mapping the Milky Way is an extremely challenging task, but observations of other galaxies helped us piece together what our home galaxy looked...
Stars make a bigger mess in old galaxies, and scientists just figured out why
Space via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoSix images of different galaxies. The more evolved a galaxy is, the more collectively chaotic the...
The secret of the bulge: A gorgeous partially digested galaxy in the Milky Way’s core
SYFY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThere are times I just want to post a pretty astronomical image, something that delights the eyes...
Humongous stellar-mass black hole is the biggest ever found in Milky Way
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 1 week agoAn artist’s impression of the largest stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy. The illustration...
In a first, a newborn star's spinning disk is seen in another galaxy
Reuters via AOL· 5 months agoNewborn stars with these circumstellar disks had been observed by astronomers only in our Milky Way...
Fugitive Stars Are Escaping From Their Galaxy—and Heading to Ours
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 1 month agoFugitive Stars Are Heading to Our GalaxyNASA/JPL-Caltech Our Milky Way galaxy and Andromeda are...
Cannibal stars at the heart of the Milky Way stay young in a gruesome way
Space via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoTo remain youthful in a cosmic demolition derby around supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, some...
James Webb Telescope spots galaxies from the dawn of time that are so massive they 'shouldn't exist'
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe James Webb Space Telescope spotted six gigantic galaxies, each roughly the size of our own Milky...
