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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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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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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 discover the fastest runaway stars in our galaxy racing away at over 5 million mph
Astronomers discovered two runaway stars racing out of our galaxy at speeds 10 times faster than th…
Jessica Orwig
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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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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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Powerful phenomena are kicking stars out of our galaxy at speeds of over 1 million miles per hour
Rogue, or hypervelocity stars are moving so quickly they're leaving the Milky Way, and never coming…
FRASER CAIN
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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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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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A NASA image shows the center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail. Expect far more revealing photos from a soon-to-launch telescope.
JWST will study every phase of the universe's history in order to learn about how the first stars a…
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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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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Astronomers have finally nailed the location of a strange and powerful signal deep in space - but they still don't know what it is
"We think it may be a magnetar - a newborn neutron star with a huge magnetic field, inside a supern…
Lindsay Dodgson
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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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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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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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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 …