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Scrawny Star With Large Planet Breaks Galactic Speed Record At 1.9 Million Kilometers Per HourThis artist’s concept visualizes stars near the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Each has a colorful trail indicating its speed –– the longer and redder the trail, the faster the star is moving. at the center one is shown with a longer trail than any other

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Scrawny Star With Large Planet Breaks Galactic Speed Record At 1.9 Million Kilometers Per HourThis artist’s concept visualizes stars near the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Each has a colorful trail indicating its speed –– the longer and redder the trail, the faster the star is moving. at the center one is shown with a longer trail than any other
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Scrawny Star With Large Planet Breaks Galactic Speed Record At 1.9 Million Kilometers Per Hour

clock-iconFebruary 11, 2025
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RIP Gaia: Revolutionary Mission That Mapped The Galaxy To Come To An End This WeekThe background image of the sky is compiled from data from more than 1.8 billion stars, showing the galaxy in almost photographic quality even though it is not a photograph. In the foregroun a 3D render of the spacecraft, a flat disk with a cylindrical telescope

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RIP Gaia: Revolutionary Mission That Mapped The Galaxy To Come To An End This WeekThe background image of the sky is compiled from data from more than 1.8 billion stars, showing the galaxy in almost photographic quality even though it is not a photograph. In the foregroun a 3D render of the spacecraft, a flat disk with a cylindrical telescope
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RIP Gaia: Revolutionary Mission That Mapped The Galaxy To Come To An End This Week

clock-iconJanuary 13, 2025
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Traces Of The Milky Way’s Original Disk Show Our Galaxy Is Unexpectedly AncientThe galaxy J04542829-6625280 bears a considerable resemblance to the Milky Way, but may have developed through a quite different path.

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Traces Of The Milky Way’s Original Disk Show Our Galaxy Is Unexpectedly AncientThe galaxy J04542829-6625280 bears a considerable resemblance to the Milky Way, but may have developed through a quite different path.
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Traces Of The Milky Way’s Original Disk Show Our Galaxy Is Unexpectedly Ancient

clock-iconOctober 14, 2024
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55 High-Speed Runaway Stars Discovered Escaping From A Single Star ClusterAn image of the tarantula nebula from JWST showing a large hollow center with wispy clouds strands all around it and many points of light. And above it, dwarisn of stars moving away quickly from it.

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55 High-Speed Runaway Stars Discovered Escaping From A Single Star ClusterAn image of the tarantula nebula from JWST showing a large hollow center with wispy clouds strands all around it and many points of light. And above it, dwarisn of stars moving away quickly from it.
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55 High-Speed Runaway Stars Discovered Escaping From A Single Star Cluster

clock-iconOctober 10, 2024
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The Best Map Of The Milky Way Is Going To Get Better – By Tracking Almost 20 Billion Starsa map of the milky way that looks like a photo. the galaxy is a thin strip of stars with wispy dark clouds

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The Best Map Of The Milky Way Is Going To Get Better – By Tracking Almost 20 Billion Starsa map of the milky way that looks like a photo. the galaxy is a thin strip of stars with wispy dark clouds
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The Best Map Of The Milky Way Is Going To Get Better – By Tracking Almost 20 Billion Stars

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Hundreds Of Possible Moons Discovered Orbiting Around AsteroidsAlt-text: This image shows many looping and overlapping orbits encircling the Sun, all of different colours (to differentiate between asteroids). The centre of the image – representing an area within the orbit of Jupiter – is very densely packed with orbits, while the outer edges remain clearer, showing the background plane of the Milky Way.

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Hundreds Of Possible Moons Discovered Orbiting Around AsteroidsAlt-text: This image shows many looping and overlapping orbits encircling the Sun, all of different colours (to differentiate between asteroids). The centre of the image – representing an area within the orbit of Jupiter – is very densely packed with orbits, while the outer edges remain clearer, showing the background plane of the Milky Way.
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Hundreds Of Possible Moons Discovered Orbiting Around Asteroids

clock-iconAugust 8, 2024
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Ancient Stars Found In Unlikely Region Of The Milky WayArtist impression of a top down view of the Milky Way. Across the spiral arms multiple five piuinted stars symbols are superimposed with arrows showing all moving consistently

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Ancient Stars Found In Unlikely Region Of The Milky WayArtist impression of a top down view of the Milky Way. Across the spiral arms multiple five piuinted stars symbols are superimposed with arrows showing all moving consistently
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Ancient Stars Found In Unlikely Region Of The Milky Way

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How Do Astronomers Map The Universe?cobweb-like structure of filaments tying galaxies and clusters of galaxies together, known as the cosmic web

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How Do Astronomers Map The Universe?cobweb-like structure of filaments tying galaxies and clusters of galaxies together, known as the cosmic web
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How Do Astronomers Map The Universe?

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Turns Out Our Galaxy Cannibalized A Companion Much More Recently Than We Thoughtan artist impressio of the milky way from the outside and the side. the galaxy is surrounded by a a cxloud of gray, the halo stars but it is not smooth. it hs gaps and wrinkles

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Turns Out Our Galaxy Cannibalized A Companion Much More Recently Than We Thoughtan artist impressio of the milky way from the outside and the side. the galaxy is surrounded by a a cxloud of gray, the halo stars but it is not smooth. it hs gaps and wrinkles
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Turns Out Our Galaxy Cannibalized A Companion Much More Recently Than We Thought

clock-iconJune 7, 2024
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Milky Way’s Newly Record-Breaking Stellar Black Hole Has The Mass Of 33 SunsThe movement of J19391872+1455542 requires an object at the center of its orbit that is the galaxy's largest known black hole other than the one at its heart.

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Milky Way’s Newly Record-Breaking Stellar Black Hole Has The Mass Of 33 SunsThe movement of J19391872+1455542 requires an object at the center of its orbit that is the galaxy's largest known black hole other than the one at its heart.
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Milky Way’s Newly Record-Breaking Stellar Black Hole Has The Mass Of 33 Suns

clock-iconApril 18, 2024
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Two Of The Oldest Building Blocks Of The Milky Way Have Just Been FoundThe image shows a generic spiral galaxy. The pink dots representing Shakti's stare are all towards the edge with little overlap with the stars from Shiva which reach the core of our galaxy

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Two Of The Oldest Building Blocks Of The Milky Way Have Just Been FoundThe image shows a generic spiral galaxy. The pink dots representing Shakti's stare are all towards the edge with little overlap with the stars from Shiva which reach the core of our galaxy
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Two Of The Oldest Building Blocks Of The Milky Way Have Just Been Found

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Notorious Cosmic Object Is Actually Two Galaxies In A Trench CoatThe SMC is a big cloudy collection of stars. Beyond the SMC itself this very wide-field image reveals many background galaxies and several star clusters, including the very bright 47 Tucanae globular cluster at the right of the picture.

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Notorious Cosmic Object Is Actually Two Galaxies In A Trench CoatThe SMC is a big cloudy collection of stars. Beyond the SMC itself this very wide-field image reveals many background galaxies and several star clusters, including the very bright 47 Tucanae globular cluster at the right of the picture.
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Notorious Cosmic Object Is Actually Two Galaxies In A Trench Coat

clock-iconDecember 18, 2023
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The Gaia Observatory Saw Stuff It Was Not Designed To SeeThis image shows a star cluster set against a dark background. The further in towards the cluster’s centre, the higher the density of stars.

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The Gaia Observatory Saw Stuff It Was Not Designed To SeeThis image shows a star cluster set against a dark background. The further in towards the cluster’s centre, the higher the density of stars.
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The Gaia Observatory Saw Stuff It Was Not Designed To See

clock-iconOctober 10, 2023
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Milky Way Weighs Less Than We Thought – And It's Missing Dark MatterSilhouettes of three people standing together holding hands against the Milky Way in the mountains.

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Milky Way Weighs Less Than We Thought – And It's Missing Dark MatterSilhouettes of three people standing together holding hands against the Milky Way in the mountains.
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Milky Way Weighs Less Than We Thought – And It's Missing Dark Matter

clock-iconSeptember 28, 2023
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We May Have Just Found The Closest Of The Most Elusive Type Of Black HoleA Hubble Space Telescope image of the globular star cluster, Messier 4. The cluster is a dense collection of several hundred thousand stars.

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We May Have Just Found The Closest Of The Most Elusive Type Of Black HoleA Hubble Space Telescope image of the globular star cluster, Messier 4. The cluster is a dense collection of several hundred thousand stars.
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We May Have Just Found The Closest Of The Most Elusive Type Of Black Hole

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