'Troublesome' radio galaxy 32 times the size of Milky Way spotted
Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.
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'Herculean' 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows our closest galactic neighbor like never before — and took more than a decade to create
The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...
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Gaia's Farewell Gift Is The Best Milky Way Map We've Ever Seen
We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.
'Enticing empire of stars:' See Andromeda galaxy in newly released NASA images
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...
Cosmic Megastructure 32 Times Bigger Than The Milky Way Discovered
A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...
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100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone
Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.
Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Lit Up in a Way We’ve Never Seen Before
Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...
Young stars in the Milky Way's back yard challenge our understanding of how they form
Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...
It took a decade for NASA to piece together this 416,592,960 pixel image of the Andromeda galaxy and the key takeaway? 'Andromeda's a train wreck'
"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...
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Most of the atoms in your body left the Milky Way on a 'cosmic conveyor belt' long before you were born, new study reveals
New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...
Rings of Creation: Webb Maps the Milky Way’s Hidden Carbon Factories
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the dynamic process of carbon-rich dust formation around Wolf ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope creates largest photomosaic ever made of "train wreck" Andromeda galaxy with over 2.5 billion pixels
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...