101 Galaxies Later: Why the Milky Way Stands Out in the Universe
New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...
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The Most Distant Stars In Our Galaxy Are Halfway To Andromeda, Say Scientists
That’s almost half the distance to Andromeda. This illustration shows the Milky Way galaxy's inner and outer halos. A halo is a spherical cloud of ... [+] stars surrounding a galaxy. Astronomers ...
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Giant Magnetic Halo Discovered Wrapped Around The Milky Way
By studying hot gas glowing in circumgalactic space, astrophysicists have found evidence of enormous magnetic fields that ...
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Legendary Gaia Spacecraft Maps Entire Galaxy, Promptly Retires
Image: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has completed one of its major charges: delivering a map of the Milky Way galaxy, comprised of trillions of ...
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A magnetic halo in the Milky Way: New discoveries about galactic outflows
has unveiled significant insights into the Milky Way: a magnetized galactic halo. This discovery challenges previous models of our galaxy's structure and evolution. Researchers have identified ...
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When Will The Milky Way Smash Into The Andromeda Galaxy? It May Already Be Underway, Say Scientists
This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way ... galaxy 270 million light years away, called IRAS 08339+6517. Although it was already known that the halo of ...