An international team of scientists has created a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way, the largest to date, and the…
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That’s 100,000,000,000 planets that could be habitable just like Earth, resembling our planet in both the surface temperature and existence…
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Astronomers have recently revealed that a strange star, dubbed J1124+4535, is most likely from another, far, far away galaxy. Hiding…
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As we continue to explore the solar system, our galaxy, and the universe, in general, we encounter things that we…
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The Milky Way is our galactic home. It’s a barred spiral galaxy with a diameter between 150,000 and 200,000 light-years (ly). It is estimated…
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More Nearly three decades ago, astronomers were unsure whether or not distant alien stars had any planets orbiting them. Then,…
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There’s a strange star speeding through our galaxy at unfathomable speed. PSR J0002+6216 was spotted by astronomers traveling through our…
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The image gives viewers an incredible, zoomable view of the central part of our galaxy. It is so large that,…
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Richard de Grijs, Macquarie University From a great distance, our Milky Way would look like a thin disc of stars…
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Astronomers have recently revealed the first accurate three-dimensional map of our galaxy, revealing the Milky Way’s true, warped and twisted shape.…
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