Space photo of the week: The chaotic heart of the Milky Way like you've never seen it before
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...
A star factory at the heart of our galaxy is mysterious and important
The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...
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How Many Rogue Planets Roam the Milky Way?
According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...
Milky Way’s cold gas clouds mapped in unprecedented detail by MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey
Such hydrogen atoms may eventually transform into molecular gas, the basic fuel for star formation. Therefore, these cold gas ...
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Gaia telescope retires: Scientists bid farewell to 'the discovery machine of the decade' that mapped 2 billion Milky Way stars
After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...
Gases structures key in enabling stars’ formation: Milky Way’s cold gas clouds mapped in unprecedented detail
Gupta explained that hydrogen atoms may eventually transform into molecular gas, the basic fuel for the formation of stars.
Just 0.4% In, Euclid’s Dark Universe Map Already Reveals 26 Million Galaxies
Euclid has opened a new window to the cosmos with its first deep sky data release, revealing millions of galaxies, ...
Our Galaxy May Have Once Had a Second Central Black Hole
The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...