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100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone
Somewhere in between, humans realized the universe is much larger than our Milky Way — that the spiral ... something very ...
The Star That Proved the Universe Is Bigger Than We Imagined
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
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NASA celebrates Edwin Hubble's discovery of a new universe
Many astronomers long believed that the edge of the Milky Way marked ... and runaway black holes, among the celestial fireworks of the interplay between matter and energy. Edwin Hubble was the ...
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Chinese space station gears up for astrophysics
For optical astronomy, the space station will be accompanied by the Xuntian telescope, which can be translated to “survey the ...
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U of A researchers capture sharpest images yet of a supermassive black hole
The sharpest images yet of a supermassive black ... Most galaxies have supermassive black holes, but the one in the Milky Way is inactive, meaning the galaxy is as well. The extragalactic AGN ...
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Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Lit Up in a Way We’ve Never Seen Before
Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...
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NASA celebrates Edwin Hubble’s discovery of a new universe
It definitively showed that Andromeda was far outside of our Milky Way ... runaway black holes, among the celestial fireworks of the interplay between matter and energy. Edwin Hubble was the ...
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Holes In The Sun
A powerful solar wind is expected to hit Earth this weekend, originating from a massive coronal hole in the sun’s atmosphere. This phenomenon could result in dazzling northern lights ...