A star factory at the heart of our galaxy is mysterious and important
The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...
Hierarchical cluster formation in the Milky Way's core caps birth of massive stars
An international research team led by Dr. Zhang Suinan from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...
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Hubble Telescope captures gorgeous new view of Milky Way's star-packed galactic neighbor (photo)
The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest galactic neighbors, which is full of ...
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How Many Rogue Planets Roam the Milky Way?
According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...
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Space photo of the week: The chaotic heart of the Milky Way like you've never seen it before
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...
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Extreme magnetic fields near our galaxy's black hole are preventing stars from being born, JWST discovers
Stars are the architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including ones crucial to life as we know it, ...
Sagittarius C: Webb provides closest look yet at one of Milky Way's most extreme environments
Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...
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Gaia telescope retires: Scientists bid farewell to 'the discovery machine of the decade' that mapped 2 billion Milky Way stars
After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...
Our Galaxy May Have Once Had a Second Central Black Hole
The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...
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Sound frequencies of stars sing of our galaxy's past and future
Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its evolution.
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JWST finds spiral galaxy about 5 times more massive than Milky Way — scientists call it 'Big Wheel'
A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion ...
Milky Way's cosmic anomaly could spell disaster for our galaxy
Aterrifying glimpse of a possible fate for our galaxy, the Milky Way, has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...