A tiny galaxy ceased making stars for billions of years. Then it rebooted.
But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space ...
James Webb telescope captures 1st 'mid-infrared' flare from Milky Way's supermassive black hole
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
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Astronomers Discover ‘Swarm’ of Black Holes Whipping Around the Milky Way Galaxy
Black holes are some of the universe's greatest mysteries, incredibly dense and sometimes massive void that suck in anything and everything that passes their event horizons. Now a relatively nearby ...
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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 ...
Legendary Gaia Spacecraft Maps Entire Galaxy, Promptly Retires
The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...
Last starlight for Gaia as it completes sky-scanning mission phase
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...