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Discovery Of A Young Large Magellanic Cloud Star System With Planet-Forming Disk
The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system ...
Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way
Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...
A twinkling group of stars dominates the center of this Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 2002 is an open star cluster that resides roughly 160,000 light-years aw…
Star clusters are formed when gravity pulls young stars together, forcing them to orbit each other. A star cluster can ...
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Strange X-ray flash from beyond the Milky Way perplexes scientists
"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...
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Hubble Telescope sets its eyes on cosmic cotton candy near the Tarantula Nebula (photo)
The Hubble Space Telescope captured the ​​colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most luminous and ...
'Remarkable' cosmic explosion discovered in decades-old X-ray data
The "needle in the haystack" discovery of a powerful explosion from a mysterious unknown object outside our galaxy has ...
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It comprises 80% of the known universe. But we know almost nothing about it -- until now.
Researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville say they have made a major breakthrough in the study of dark matter in ...
Breakthrough enables measurement of local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements
Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville ...
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'Dark matter is more valuable than gold': Wobbly galaxies help shine a light on the universe's strangest stuff
That wobble is due to the influence of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies, like the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), and rapidly rotating neutron stars, or "pulsars." Fascinatingly, pulsars act like ...
A recipe for baby stars: Just add fluffy molecular clouds
“The data indicates that the youngest stars form in filaments of gas,” Loeb said. “Subsequently the gas cools and fragments ...
Astronomy: Black hole in satellite galaxy hurls stars into Milky Way
At the edge of the Milky Way, there are a surprising number of hyper-fast stars that originate from outside. They apparently ...