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Case of the missing stars: At least 800 stars have quietly disappeared in the last 70 years, say scientists
Based off of the little sense we’ve made of the hot mess that is the cosmos, there are two ways sta…
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Two massive bubbles stretch 700 light years above and below the center of the Milky Way
One of the largest features ever seen, has been spotted right at the center of our very own galaxy,…
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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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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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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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Bubbles filled with thousands of stars found in the Milky Way
The size of these bubbles is decided by the wind and radiation coming from the young and massi…
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Millions of black holes are speeding around the Milky Way after being kicked at birth
Travelling at speeds greater than 70 kilometers per second — that’s 252,000 kilometers per hou…
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Astronomers found the closest black hole to Earth — and there could be millions more like it
Scientists usually find black holes by detecting X-rays they emit as they devour nearby stars. But …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers using a NASA space telescope spotted the first signs of a planet beyond the Milky Way
If this planet exists, it's orbiting a dead star or a black hole and it only passes through Earth's…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Supermassive black holes grew from mysterious ‘seeds’ that are yet to be found
Black holes are one of the most mysterious objects in outer space whose origins continue to perplex…
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A huge explosion sliced through our galaxy just 3.5 million years ago, as human ancestors walked the Earth. Scientists think it was nuclear activity in the black hole at the Milky Way's center.
Satellites have detected bubbles of gamma- and X-ray radiation extending up to 50,000 light-years a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Pune telescope detected an explosion five times bigger than the Big Bang 390 million light years from Earth
The other telescopes used for the discovery included NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Euro…
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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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Astronomers May Have Found The Youngest Blackhole In The Milky Way
The highly distorted supernova remnant shown in this image may contain the most recent black hole f…
Dina Spector
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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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Astronomers think a rare and explosive 'red nova' will light up the night sky in a few years
But no one was certain that KIC 9832227 was actually a double-star system; all astronomers knew was…
Dave Mosher
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Astronomers are baffled by a newly discovered cosmic explosion that's the most powerful supernova ever seen
"To my surprise, I was not able to even tell for sure it was a supernova. My first reaction was: 'T…
Jessica Orwig
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Scientists Have Detected A New Stellar Explosion That Might Be A Supernova
Only stars with a mass between 8 to 50 times greater than our sun produce Type II supernovae. It ha…
Jessica Orwig
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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. …