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NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!'
"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Astronomy At FAU: Stellar Evolution In Neighborhood
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and is located around 160,000 light years away from our solar system. This ...
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Flickers and flares: JWST reveals Milky Way's central black hole constantly bubbles with light
Nothing ever stayed the same." An expert on the Milky Way's center, Yusef-Zadeh is a professor of physics and astronomy at ...
NASA's James Webb Telescope captures Milky Way blackhole emitting fireworks-like display
Scientists are not completely sure of the origin of the flares from the blackhole Sagittarius A*, which lies at the core of ...
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NASA's SPHEREx Mission Will Soon Search the Milky Way for Signs of Water
Learn about NASA's SPHEREx mission, which will launch on March 4, 2025 to study the universe's early history and search the ...
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The best objects to view and photograph along the Milky Way
I began photographing the Milky Way around 2018, but the hobby took off in earnest for me at the onset of the COVID years as I took myself out to remote dark sites to capture images. For many ...