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Milky Way shines over Gemini South Observatory | Space photo of the day for Jan. 26, 2025

Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the ...
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It sounds like something out of a movie, but NASA says it’s real—the black hole in the Milky Way that is about to wake up

We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large ...
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Rubin Observatory could catch the Milky Way’s next supernova before anyone else does

The next Milky Way supernova may not surprise astronomers at all. According to a recent study available on the arXiv preprint server, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, ahead of its decade-long Legacy ...

Gaze into the Milky Way’s black hole with NASA’s ‘back catalog’ of X-ray data

The most recent CSC update adds more than 400,000 unique compact and extended X-ray sources, as well over 1.3 million ...
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See the Milky Way glow with the stars of the Summer Triangle above Egypt's Black Desert

Deneb, Vega and Altair are among the brightest stars in the night sky.
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New JWST imagery dives into the center of the Milky Way

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...
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Milky Way's chance of colliding with Andromeda? New study puts odds at 50-50

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...

Massive runaway stars in the Milky Way: Observational study explores origins and ejection process

Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), in collaboration with the Institute of Astrophysics of ...
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Astronomers confirm earliest Milky Way-like galaxy in the universe, just 2 billion years after the Big Bang

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...
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Milky Way has 50-50 chance of colliding with neighbor galaxy

Astronomers believe the two galaxies may collide in next 10 billion years Theory based on data from Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia star-tracking mission 'In short, the probability went from ...