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Is the Sun really common in the Milky Way?
99.8% of the mass in the Solar System is occupied by the Sun, as the only star, the Sun firmly holds a dominant position in the entire stellar system.
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Discovered that the 3 oldest stars in the universe are 'invading' the Milky Way
Astronomers have discovered three ancient stars that once belonged to the universe's first galaxies
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The Milky Way has swallowed 'the child of the Big Bang'
A series of objects 12-13 billion years old have just been found in the halo of the Milky Way, the galaxy containing the Earth.
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Detection of the Milky Way's most metal-poor star
Astronomers have just discovered the most metal-poor helium star called EC 19529-4430.
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Discovery of the largest stellar black hole ever in the Milky Way
A study published on April 16 said that astronomers have identified an unprecedented stellar black hole in the Milky Way.
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Admire a series of impressive photos taken of the Milky Way
Blog Capture The Atlas on May 25 announced the outstanding works in the Milky Way Photographer of the Year 2021 photography contest.
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The Milky Way's monster black hole is alive, spewing 'death rays'
Sagittarius A* is a monster black hole located at the center of the Milky Way, the galaxy where Earth resides.
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New discovery helps decode many mysteries about the early days of the Milky Way
Researchers at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have identified 'strong candidates' that could be evidence of the early days of the Milky Way.
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Unveiling a map of 1.8 billion stars in the Milky Way
The European Space Agency has released a dataset collected by the Gaia Space Observatory, showing many characteristics of large numbers of stars.
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Extremely rare cosmic object has just been discovered in the Milky Way
A new member of a rare class of stars, known only in very limited numbers, has been discovered in the Milky Way.
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Could 4 extraterrestrial civilizations lurk in the Milky Way and attack us?
The Milky Way is home to millions of potentially habitable planets, and about four of them may contain extraterrestrial civilizations.
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Successfully photographed a black hole in the center of the Milky Way
Astronomers on the evening of May 12 released the first image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of our galaxy.
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Detects a shock wave 60 times larger than the Milky Way
Scientists have discovered that the collision caused a shock wave 60 times larger than the entire Milky Way and about 100,000 light-years across.
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Discovered thousands of mysterious strings in the center of the Milky Way
According to a new image from a telescope, at the center of the Milky Way, there are nearly 1,000 mysterious magnetic strings. The pairs and clusters of filaments span n…
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Scientists catch strange signals from the center of the Milky Way
Scientists find strange radio waves, unlike anything seen before, originating from the center of the Milky Way.