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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 ...
Discover the wonders of our solar system and the fascinating Milky Way Galaxy
Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.
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Dark matter may have caused a baffling break in this star stream
A strange break in a stream of stars in the Milky Way could be the result of dark matter, but only if the dark matter is hot ...
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The revisited mass of the Milky Way is much smaller than expectations from cosmology
The total mass of the Milky Way is estimated to be only two hundred billion times that of the sun (2.06 x 10 11 solar masses), marking a significant downward revision—approximately four to five ...
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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 and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.
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Expansion of the Universe
Our Milky Way is a spiral galaxy rotating around a central point. Our Sun is on one of the spiral arms as shown in the diagram: The Sun's orbital speed is determined almost entirely by the ...