Astronaut’s Remarkable Image Captures Milky Way Beyond Earth’s Horizon
The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth.
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NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!'
"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...
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Does The Milky Way Move Like A Spinning Top?
An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...
Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way
Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...
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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, ...
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 ...
8 stunning images of Milky Way
This image shows the center of the Milky Way galaxy in infrared light, as seen by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The image reveals the details of the galactic core, where a supermassive black hole ...
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 ...
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Astronomers Spot ‘Fireworks’ Display Near Milky Way’s Black Hole
Astronomers have spotted displays of flashing lights and “fireworks” near a supermassive black hole at the center of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...