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2.5-Billion-Pixel Andromeda Galaxy Panorama Worth The Decade Of Hubble Observations
The work has revealed that Andromeda is a lot more chaotic than expected. Similar to what recently retired Gaia did for the ...
100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone
That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd ...
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The Sky This Week from January 17 to 24: A conjunction of Venus and Saturn
Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...
Panorama of Andromeda galaxy unveils hundreds of millions of stars
In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the ...
Young stars in the Milky Way's back yard challenge our understanding of how they form
Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...
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NASA's Hubble traces hidden history of Andromeda galaxy
In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...
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Universe's Ghost Towns: Rare Dwarf Galaxies Unveiled
A team of astronomers led by David Sand, a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona Steward Observatory, has uncovered three faint and ...
NASA celebrates Edwin Hubble's discovery of a new universe
For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...
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First Infrared Flare-Up Detected From The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly ...
ESA's Gaia spacecraft 'gives best insight yet' of what the Milky Way looks
The ESA says Gaia has been mapping the positions, distances, movements, brightness changes, composition of stars in the Milky ...
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Dark matter may have caused a baffling break in this star stream
Scientists are keen to get to the bottom of the dark matter puzzle because this phenomenon accounts for the vast majority of ...
There might be far more supermassive black holes hiding around us than we thought, scientists warn
The universe could be home to far more supermassive black holes than we realised, according to new research. Many of them are ...