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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 ...
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An Astronaut Just Captured a Jaw-Dropping Photo of Earth and the Milky Way from Space
NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, photo of the ...
Dark skies across America are rapidly disappearing. Nevada is fighting to maintain theirs
Nevada is one of very few places left in the country where there is so little artificial light the Milky Way is visible to ...
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'Dark matter is more valuable than gold': Wobbly galaxies help shine a light on the universe's strangest stuff
"We are able to measure the local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements for the first time." ...
Image: The Milky Way on the horizon
NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, image of the ...
Hubble sees mini galaxies surrounding Andromeda are pretty wild
"Everything scattered in the Andromeda system is very asymmetric and perturbed. It does appear that something significant ...
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Milky Way’s Black Hole Suddenly Lit Up Out Of The Blue — And Scientists Have No Explanation For It
And Scientists Have No Explanation For It The vast space beyond our planet’s wall was rightly known as the final frontier, ...
Astrophysicists surprised by light show around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole
Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the ...
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 ...
7 stunning images of start clusters by NASA
NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope found X-ray signals from young stars outside the Milky Way for the first time. These stars are in the “Wing” of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy. The skin ...
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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Look for the winter Milky Way and zodiacal light in March
In March the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga fill the southern sky ...