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Scientists think they’ve spotted 60 potential alien power plants in the Milky Way!
Dyson Spheres, a shell or swarm of objects built by an advanced civilisation to capture the immense…
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Scientists think they've finally solved the decades-long mystery of why our Milky Way galaxy is so rare
Spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are surprisingly rare, and astronomers have wondered why for yea…
Sonam Sheth
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3D map of the Milky Way shows its twisted warped shape is changing — and it could be because of an ongoing collision
Just like the Earth was once thought to be flat, so was the Milky Way. However, a new 3D map of the…
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The Milky Way gobbled up another galaxy 11.5 billion years ago — and it could provide clues to why the galaxy is twisted up in a spiral shape
The Milky Way gobbled up a dwarf galaxy Gaia Enceladus between 11.6 to 13.2 billion years ago and t…
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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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New stars running from the death of their own galaxies means our Milky Way might survive
These stars are migrant refugees fleeing from their own dwarf galaxies — known as Magellanic Clo…
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Rare doughnut-shaped galaxy — a ‘cosmic ring of fire' — is making baby stars 50 times faster than the Milky Way
Astronomers have spotted a ‘cosmic ring of fire’ making stars 50 times faster than the Milky Way — …
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An experiment that reaches across our galaxy has detected the first signs of a possible 'sea' of ripples in space-time
Supermassive black holes merging in distant galaxies could be creating a background hum of gravitat…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Milky Way's neighbour might not be so ‘dead’ with young stars brewing at its center
But the Messier 110 might be an exception. But, the discovery of new stars in Mess…
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Young stars at the edge of the Milky Way appear to have come from 2 nearby galaxies. That means a galactic collision could happen sooner than predicted.
Since it's easier to measure the distance of stars than clouds of gas, the discovery allowed the sc…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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James Webb Space Telescope takes high-detail image of rare Cartwheel Galaxy, formed by a messy cosmic collision
The space telescope took a fresh look at the Cartwheel Galaxy and shed light on how the galaxy has …
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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In a single month, the James Webb Space Telescope has seen the oldest galaxies, messy cosmic collisions, and a hot gas planet's atmosphere
In the month since the space telescope released its first batch of images, it's deluged astronomers…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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An astronomer's stunning photo of the Milky Way shows our galaxy through a crystal ball
He placed the crystal ball on a handrail post, then aimed his Canon 6D camera at the orb. He chose …
Dave Mosher
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Humans are made of gold — silver and platinum too
Billions and billions of years ago, before the world even existed, a collision between two neutron …
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A pair of supermassive black holes are stuck in a collision between galaxies. Astronomers caught the chaos on camera.
"This galaxy is so complex that we could never know what is going on inside it without these detail…
Aria Bendix,Aria Bendix
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We're on a collision course with the Andromeda Galaxy - here's what will happen to Earth
In 3.75 billion years, Earth's Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy. Over the ne…
Jacqui Frank,Jessica Orwig
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James Webb Space Telescope spots a supermassive black hole in the early universe, much sooner after the Big Bang than scientists can explain
NASA's Webb telescope spotted an active supermassive black hole that existed 570 million years afte…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Jenny M…
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A stunning photo from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals 3 galaxies colliding
Galaxies merging together create starbursts and supermassive black hole collisions. The new James W…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers say they've discovered the largest magnetic fields in the universe
When clusters of galaxies collide, their billions of stars and trillions of planets rarely make con…
Dave Mosher
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Here's what will happen to Earth when our galaxy collides with the Andromeda galaxy
"The reason we think that our solar system will not be much affected by this collision... is that g…