How astronomers make deep maps of the Milky Way
Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful ...
Scientists reveal the most detailed infrared map ever of the Milky Way
This new map of the Milky Way contains 10 times more objects than ... 500 terabytes of data - roughly equivalent to 124,000 ...
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A new way to measure where the Milky Way’s dark matter is
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, causing the larger galaxy to “wobble,” imparting ...
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NASA’s new telescope will reveal the most colorful map of the universe
These space telescopes will be used to take high-definition images of distant ... biogenic molecules—inside gas clouds of the Milky Way galaxy, our own home galaxy. These molecules, such as ...
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Astonishingly detailed map of the Milky Way will blow your mind
Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC We now have the most detailed catalogue of stars in our Milky Way galaxy yet. The new map -- created using data collected by the Gaia satellite -- shows about 1.7 billion ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
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Astronomers spot flares of light near the black hole at the center of our galaxy
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy ... together at high speeds, forming ...
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Webb telescope observes violence around Milky Way's central black hole
WASHINGTON: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is providing the best look yet at the chaotic events unfolding around the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy, observing a ...