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Panorama of the brilliant beauty of the center of the Milky Way
Combining images taken from multiple space telescopes, scientists introduced the beauty of the center of the Milky Way, the galaxy containing the Earth.
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Two galaxies merge
A recent picture of the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope obtained an image that appears to be a very bright and strange galaxy, but is in fact the result of a pair of s…
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Latest pictures of Pinwheel Galaxy galaxy
The Isaac Newton Telescope telescope in La Palma, Spain recently captured the latest image of Pinwheel Galaxy.
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New theory rejects dark energy
Dark energy, the mysterious resource that came out more than a decade ago to explain why the universe is separating at a faster rate, is no longer needed.
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Chandra X-ray 10-year anniversary.
About 10 years ago the Columbia spacecraft launched with the astronomers' hopes and dreams - Chandra X-ray Observatory
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The female fairy eats meat
The Nymph, the only galaxy we can see with the naked eye when standing in the northern hemisphere, swells by swallowing the smaller galaxy.
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The hypothesis of dark energy is there to stand?
A modern astrophysical problem, though more or less
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The Milky Way has no numerical date
Some small galaxies have collided with the Milky Way. Similar clashes still occur in the future, but they cannot destroy the Milky Way as predicted by many scientists.
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Discover a giant galaxy and a great black hole away from the Milky Way
Astronomer Tomotsugu Goto from the University of Hawaii and his colleagues discovered a giant galaxy surrounding a large black hole at a location farther away from Earth…
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Find the Milky Way's hidden neighbor
Two scientists from the University of California (USA) - judged that the gravitational force from a galaxy causes disturbances in the Milky Way's disk of dust.
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Discover the galaxy 'Green Pea'
A team of astronomers discovered a rare cluster of galaxies called 'Green Peas' with the help of other scientists through an online project Galaxy Zoo.
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Cosmic vibrations reduce the mass of galaxies
The new study, published July 30 in Nature, explains the origin of spherical dwarf galaxies.
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Spitzer captured a strange galaxy
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured a meandering galaxy with an identical mind-shaped opening.
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Discovering super-active galaxies in the early universe
Looking back at 11 billion years ago, astronomers for the first time measured the motion of stars of a distant galaxy and obtained a velocity of up to one million miles…
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Sparkling colors of the nebula
The Omega Nebula, sometimes called the Swan Nebula, is a brilliant star nursery that is 5,500 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. As a st…