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New NASA Picture Shows Milky Way’s Violent, Energetic “Downtown”

New NASA Picture Shows Milky Way’s Violent, Energetic “Downtown”

By Tony Ho Tran

European Space Agency scientists put out a time-lapse video showing how the Milky Way galaxy will evolve over 400,00 years.

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Dazzling Video Shows How Milky Way Will Evolve Over 400,000 Years

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency compiled the most detailed map of the Milky Way galaxy in history, plotting the location and course of nearly 2 billion stars.

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This Is the Most Detailed Map of the Milky Way in History

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers found evidence of a "fossil galaxy" buried deep inside the Milky Way. It seems our galaxy gobbled up one of its neighbors 10 billion years ago.

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Scientists Find Remnants of “Fossil Galaxy” Inside the Milky Way

By Dan Robitzski

New NASA-led research calculated that on average, about one in two Sun-like stars in the Milky Way have exoplanets in their habitable zones.

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NASA: Half the Sun-like Stars in our Galaxy Have Potentially-Habitable Planets

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have observed that two bubbles around the center of the Milky Way are spitting out clusters of cold molecular gas "like bullets."

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Astronomers Detect “Bullets” of Gas Shooting Out of Our Galactic Center

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have discovered an astonishingly Milky Way-like galaxy called SPT0418-47 more than 12 billion light-years away from our own galaxy.

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Astronomers Puzzled By Ancient Milky Way-Like Galaxy 12 Billion Light-Years Away

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found a stream of 200 stars hurtling toward the center of the Milky Way, and they suspect they came from another galaxy.

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Astronomers Surprised to Find Stars Streaming Into the Center of Our Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

New simulations on galaxy development suggest that powerful magnetic fields present in the early universe could have stunted the Milky Way's growth.

Scientists: Magnetic Fields May Have Crushed Our Entire Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Advanced simulations suggest that supernovae in the center of the Milky Way galaxy are shooting nearby stars all the way to its outer reaches.

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Astronomers: Our Galaxy Is Belligerently Flinging Stars Into Space

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study using data collected by the ESA, the Milky Way is being warped as it's slowly colliding with a smaller neighboring galaxy.

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Astronomers: Something Is Warping Our Entire Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

The Radcliffe Wave is an unbroken stream stars and stellar nurseries 9,000 light-years long — and it may be the biggest structure in the Milky Way.

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Wave of “Stellar Nurseries” May Be Our Galaxy’s Biggest Structure

By Kristin Houser

NASA released a new panorama image of the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Aside from looking cool, it could help reveal how the galactic core operates.

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Check Out This Incredibly Beautiful New Image of Our Home Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just released an image of a "cosmic candy cane" in the center of the galaxy. The unusually shaped cloud is likely linked to active star formation.

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Scientists Discover “Cosmic Candy Cane” in Milky Way Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

A new survey of the center of the Milky Way challenges what astronomers have long thought about how stars formed in the region.

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Astronomers May Have Been Wrong About The Milky Way’s History

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have spotted a gigantic black hole 70 times the mass of the Sun in our galaxy — way bigger than expected.

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Scientists: Ominous Black Hole Is Way Too Big to Exist

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists spotted a runaway star traveling across the galaxy so rapidly that it will never return and traced its path back to our supermassive black hole.

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A Supermassive Black Hole Yeeted This Star at 3.7 Million MPH

By Dan Robitzski

At least six of the smaller galaxies orbiting the Milky Way were stolen from one of its other satellites, according to new research.

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Our Ravenous Galaxy Keeps Stealing Smaller Galaxies

By Kristin Houser

According to a new study, the center of the Milky Way galaxy exploded in a huge flare-up of hot gas. And an explosion might explode again in the future.

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3.5 Million Years Ago, Our Galaxy Was Rocked by an Explosion

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers observed the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way called Sagittarius A* flare up growing 75 times brighter than usual.

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The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Just Did Something Wild

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers believe a past galactic collision with Antlia 2 is to blame for large ripples in the Milky Way's outer hydrogen gas disc.

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We Live in the Wreckage of an Epic Galactic Collision, Says Study

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers have discovered that one subregion of the Milky Way is far more efficient at star formation than the others — and they don't know why.

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Scientists Find Mysterious Star-Forming Factory In Milky Way

By Kristin Houser

This ultra-high-definition 360 degree visualization comes courtesy of data collected by the Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA's Ames supercomputer.

360-Degree Video Puts You in the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

New data collected by NASA, using two space telescopes, shows that the vast majority of our galaxy's mass is dark matter.

New NASA Measurements: Milky Way Galaxy Is “On the Beefier Side”

By Jon Christian

New research has uncovered a stellar stream comprising 4,000 stars flowing through the Milky Way remarkably close to the Earth.

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Scientists Found a “River of Stars” Flowing Through the Milky Way

By Kristin Houser

A new 3D map of the Milky Way galaxy shows a different structure than scientists expected. It turns out the outer disk is all warped out of shape.

The Milky Way is a Lot More Warped Than Scientists Thought

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have captured the best-ever image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

Here’s the Best-Ever Image of the Black Hole Devouring Our Galaxy

By Jon Christian

An upcoming galactic collision could wake the Milky Way's black hole and fling our solar system into intergalactic space, according to new research.

Galactic Collision Could Fling Our Solar System Into Intergalactic Space

By Jon Christian

Researchers looking at Gaia satellite data have discovered a new galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, and not only is it massive, it's also "ghostly."

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Scientists Discover a “Ghost of a Galaxy” Orbiting the Milky Way

By Kristin Houser

These Lonely Planets Drift Through Space Without Orbiting Stars

These Lonely Planets Drift Through Space Without Orbiting Stars

By Dan Robitzski

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Dark Energy Survey Discovers Remnants of Other Galaxies Within Our Own

By Chelsea Gohd

We Just Moved One Step Closer to Finally Detecting Dark Matter

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We Just Moved One Step Closer to Finally Detecting Dark Matter

Milky Way’s Origins Are Not What They Seem

Milky Way’s Origins Are Not What They Seem

Scientists Assert That Earth May Exist in a Massive Cosmic Void

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Scientists Assert That Earth May Exist in a Massive Cosmic Void

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Scientists May Have Found a Simple Solution to a 40-Year-Old Space Mystery

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New Evidence Shows We Might Have Gotten Cosmic Evolution Entirely Wrong

By June Javelosa

Understanding Dark Matter: Astronomers Found a New Object Orbiting the Milky Way

Understanding Dark Matter: Astronomers Found a New Object Orbiting the Milky Way

Cloudy With a Chance of Sulfur: Monstrous Cloud Will Collide With the Milky Way

Cloudy With a Chance of Sulfur: Monstrous Cloud Will Collide With the Milky Way

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Our Part of the Milky Way is 30% Larger Than We Thought

Here’s What We Need to do If We Want to Colonize the Milky Way

Here’s What We Need to do If We Want to Colonize the Milky Way

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Gaia Mission Produces Stunning 1-Billion Star Map of the Milky Way

Enormous X-Shaped Structure Discovered At The Center of The Milky Way

Enormous X-Shaped Structure Discovered At The Center of The Milky Way

By June Javelosa

Cornell Astronomers Say Alien Contact is Likely 1,500 Years Away

Cornell Astronomers Say Alien Contact is Likely 1,500 Years Away

By Charmaine Caparas

Science Explained: How Does the Milky Way Really Look?

Science Explained: How Does the Milky Way Really Look?

By Miguel Santos

New Research Shows 700 Quintillion Planets Populate Our Universe, and Earth Could Be Unique

New Research Shows 700 Quintillion Planets Populate Our Universe, and Earth Could Be Unique

By Sarah Marquart

Hubble Image Reveals One of The Largest Black Holes in the Known Universe

Hubble Image Reveals One of The Largest Black Holes in the Known Universe

By Sarah Marquart

Astronomers Discover Nearly 1000 New Galaxies Lurking Behind the Milky Way

Astronomers Discover Nearly 1000 New Galaxies Lurking Behind the Milky Way

By Todd Jaquith

Huge Gas Cloud Flying Toward Our Galaxy Could Create Two Million Stars

Huge Gas Cloud Flying Toward Our Galaxy Could Create Two Million Stars

By Sarah Marquart

Astronomers Claim To Have Found Enormous Invisible Structures Hiding In The Milky Way

Astronomers Claim To Have Found Enormous Invisible Structures Hiding In The Milky Way

By June Javelosa

The Largest Galaxy In the Known Universe: IC 1101

The Largest Galaxy In the Known Universe: IC 1101

By Jolene Creighton

Size Comparisons of the Largest Objects in the Known Universe

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Size Comparisons of the Largest Objects in the Known Universe

By Jolene Creighton

What Does the Milky Way Look Like from the ISS?

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What Does the Milky Way Look Like from the ISS?

By Jolene Creighton

How Many Stars, Planets and Black Holes Are In the Milky Way Galaxy?

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How Many Stars, Planets and Black Holes Are In the Milky Way Galaxy?

By Jaime Trosper

Four of the Largest Objects in the Known Universe

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Four of the Largest Objects in the Known Universe

By Jolene Creighton