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The true size of the Milky Way
Spiral galaxies like our Milky Way are in fact larger than expected, according to a new study by Colorado Boulder University based on data collected from the Hubble Spac…
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Witness the 'meal' of the super black hole
The Herschel Space Telescope has caused a great surprise for astronomers, when observing the extremely hot air being sucked into a black hole in the center of our Milky…
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Close up of the Milky Way's
Some of the Milky Way stars must be 13 billion years old, but the production machine is constantly working to produce new generation of stars.
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100 billion planets reside in the Milky Way
American astronomers predict the Milky Way is home to at least 100 billion stars and 100 billion planets.
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The 84 million star image is at the center of the universe
On October 24, Chilean astronomers said that in a research program on the Milky Way, they created an image with about 84 million stars in the center of the universe.
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Unprecedented discovery of supernovae
A group of astronomers at the Chalmers and Onsala Space Observatory recently discovered seven supernovae that had never before been known in a galaxy 250 million light-y…
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Close-up of the Milky Way's twin brothers
Astronomers have just announced a picture claimed to be the most beautiful ever about NGC 6744, a spiral galaxy described as human
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Decipher the mysterious fog in the Milky Way
The strange mist in the Milky Way made the scientific world a headache for decades as a swirling dust cloud at a rate of more than ten billion times per second.
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The fierce childhood of Tien Nu
Tien Nu, a galaxy spiraling closest to the Milky Way, formed after the collision between two smaller galaxies.
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The Milky Way's black hole may have erupted a giant air bubble
The Milky Way is blowing air bubbles into space. A twin bubble of air is blown up by gamma rays, the size of each is equivalent to the size of a small galaxy, ...
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Strange planet 'intrusion' Milky Way
Recent world astronomers have confirmed the discovery of a strange planet, belonging to another galaxy
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9 suitable places to find extraterrestrial life
Mars, the Orion Nebula, Jupiter's satellites Europa are places where humans should pay attention in the search for life in the universe.
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The mysterious bubble appears between the Milky Way
Two giant bubbles spew out gamma beams that appear in the center of the Milky Way and astronomers don't know where they were born.
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The Milky Way has billions of planets close to Earth
The Milky Way contains at least 46 billion planets of the same mass as Earth. That incredible amount makes the ability to find life on other planets much bigger.
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Publish the most complete picture of the galaxy
The Adler, Chicago (USA) astronomical department recently published the latest and most complete picture of a galaxy of 800,000 images of different sizes.