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The Milky Way is recycling its gases to form a clumpy halo
A halo is a large region filled with hot gas that surrounds a galaxy, also known as a "circumgal…
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Earth's neighboring star Betelgeuse unexpectedly got 50% brighter part of a weird process that will end in the dying star going supernova
Observers have spotted some bizarre behavior from Betelgeuse in recent years, as it sheds light on …
Marianne Guenot
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Astronomers discovered a 'spooky' spinning object in our galactic backyard, emitting some of the strongest radio beams in the sky
Radio telescopes are detecting more mysterious signals. They switch on and off and don't match any …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Unknown objects at the heart of the Milky Way are beaming radio signals, then mysteriously disappearing
Radio waves bursting from the center of the Milky Way, then disappearing, might reveal a new type o…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers spotted a galaxy dying after a major collision. It's bleeding out 10,000 suns' worth of gas each year.
Galaxies need cold gas to form new stars, and this one is bleeding 10,000 suns worth of the stuff e…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Stars are being born next to the Milky Way's supermassive black hole in a stunning new image by the world's largest airborne telescope
The world's largest airborne telescope — the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFI…
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope maps giant halo around Milk Way's closest neighbour
This means that Andromeda's halo is already bumping into the halo of our own galaxy. The sc…
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A stunning image of the Milky Way took 12 years to photograph. It shows the ghost of a supernova.
The photographer J-P Metsavainio spent 1,250 hours collecting images for his Milky Way mosaic, whic…
Aria Bendix
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An ancient super-Earth offers an unexpected clue that life in our galaxy could be older than scientists thought
This rocky planet formed about 10 billion years ago, making it twice as old as Earth. It's too hot …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A star set to explode in 2083 will be the brightest object in Earth's sky as it dies
Over the next few decades, the star will brighten rapidly. Around 2083, all of the mass from V Sagi…
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Our galaxy could have at least 36 intelligent alien civilizations, researchers say. It may take thousands of years to find them.
Extraterrestrial civilizations could tell us whether human life will last millions of years, or jus…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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7 Easter eggs in the images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are totally new to astronomy
An astronomer points out hidden sights in NASA's new images, from previously invisible star cluster…
Marianne Guenot,Morgan McFall…
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All about Super-Earths, their dwarf stars and how they're more habitable than our earth
I'm a professor of astronomy who studies galactic cores, distant galaxies, astrobiology and ex…
PTI
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Betelgeuse likely won't die as a supernova in your life. But astronomers are finding 'red nova' stars that may soon violently explode.
For years, Molnar and his colleagues have studied little-known yet extremely bright stellar mergers…
Dave Mosher
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Fast radio bursts were once thought to be alien broadcasts. New research suggests the mysterious signals come from dead stars.
Magnetars are the super dense remains of dead stars. Their explosions of X-rays and gamma rays some…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Black hole or a neutron star — NASA puzzled over strange bright lights in the 'Fireworks' galaxy
The irony is that the observatory wasn’t really looking for either of them. The primar…
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Astronomers have observed the longest supernova ever seen. The mysterious explosion might have annihilated its star, leaving nothing behind.
In theory, this type of explosion would occur when super-massive stars start producing too many mat…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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All stars in the universe may form in pairs - but we can't find the sun's missing 'Nemesis'
When he introduced his Nemesis idea, Muller posited that the twin star might periodically intersect…
David Levine
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Archaeologists figured out that some of the world's oldest cave drawings don't just depict animals - they're constellations of stars
A particularly notable cave painting that the researchers studied was southern France's Lascaux Sha…
Jennifer Nguyen
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The way we might protect ourselves from an exploding star could help us find alien civilizations
Ice is plentiful in space. The Kuiper Belt, on the outer edges of our solar system, is full of it. …