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Scientists claim something mysterious and invisible is hiding at the centre of the galaxy
Scientists have suggested the presence of something mysterious and invisible at the center of our galaxy. Last year, ...
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100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone
If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...
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Andromeda galaxy: The violent history of our closest cosmic neighbor
Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...
X-ray echoes reveal 3D structure of molecular clouds in our galaxy's center
Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...
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The Most Distant Stars In Our Galaxy Are Halfway To Andromeda, Say Scientists
It points straight at a fuzzy patch that, under the darkest skies though more likely through binoculars, looks like what it is—a very large and very close galaxy. Also called M31—and our ...
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Panorama of our nearest galactic neighbor unveils hundreds of millions of stars
The Hubble Space Telescope has generated the most comprehensive survey yet of the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest galactic ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope creates largest photomosaic ever made of "train wreck" Andromeda galaxy with over 2.5 billion pixels
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and can be seen with the naked eye on a clear autumn night as “a faint ...
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The carbon in our bodies probably left the galaxy and came back on cosmic 'conveyer belt'
Scientists recently discovered that the giant 'conveyer belt' currents that push star-forged material out of our galaxy and pull it back in can also transport carbon atoms. That means that a good deal ...