Cosmic Megastructure 32 Times Bigger Than The Milky Way Discovered
A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...
Tiny Galaxy, Big Discoveries: NGC 300 and the Secrets of Cosmic Growth
Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...
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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 ...
This Tiny Galaxy Is Answering Some Big Questions
The galaxy, located in the constellation Leo, is about the same size as a star cluster within the Milky Way and is about the ...
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It's the end for Gaia: the mapping of the Milky Way comes to an end
The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service ...
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 ...
Study Defies Understanding Of How Small Galaxies Grow In Space
A study carried out by a team of astronomers led by University of Arizona researcher Catherine Fielder has found that smaller ...
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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 ...
2.5 gigapixels: Hubble telescope takes largest photo of the Andromeda Galaxy
Hubble's first gigapixel panorama of the Andromeda Galaxy was published exactly ten years ago. This has now been ...
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“Something” is attracting the Milky Way and thousands of other galaxies: We don’t know what it is
The Milky Way and thousands of other galaxies are drawn to "something": We have no idea what it is. The Great Attractor is a ...
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Building blocks of life on Earth left the Milky Way before being pulled back in
The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way ... of life "took the long way around" the galaxy before coming together ...