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Something 'fishy' is happening with the Milky Way's dark matter halo

Stars around the outskirts of our galaxy may hint at a secret about the Milky Way's dark matter.

Space

New mystery object could be lightest black hole ever seen

The MeerKat Radio Telescope discovered an unknown object in the Milky Way heavier than the largest neutron star but lighter than the smallest black holes.

Space

How do we know what the Milky Way looks like?

Directly mapping the Milky Way is an extremely challenging task, but observations of other galaxies helped us piece together what our home galaxy looked like.

Space

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Surprise gamma-ray discovery could shed light on cosmic mystery

An unexpected and unexplained gamma-ray signal from beyond the Milky Way found among 13 years of NASA Fermi Telescope data could be linked to another cosmic mystery.

Space

One of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way is hiding a second galaxy behind it, new research reveals

New observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud show that it might actually be two galaxies disguised as one.

LiveScience

Hubble Telescope sees a bright 'snowball' of stars in the Milky Way's neighbor (image)

The Hubble Space Telescope has zoomed in on a tightly bound cluster of stars located in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, producing an image of a globular cluster that looks like a frosty cosmic snowball.

Space

What Created The Milky Way’s Mysterious Bar? A Galactic Collision, Maybe

Some researchers think the collision may have left another mark on the Milky Way: giving our galaxy the bar that cuts across its center.

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Watch This Nebula 2,500 Light Years Away Light Up Like a Christmas Tree

The Milky Way delivers holiday cheer in a new image and video from NASA.

Inverse

How many times has the sun traveled around the Milky Way?

Our solar system has been orbiting the Milky Way's black hole heart for 4.6 billion years. But it is hard to pin down exactly how many trips around the galaxy our sun has made during that time.

LiveScience

Astro and space photographer Jen Rogers shares shows us what's in her kit bag

Jen has a passion for the outdoors and takes her camera kit with her on adventures to take incredible astro photographs

Digital Camera World

1st evidence of nuclear fission in stars hints at elements 'never produced on Earth'

An analysis of 42 ancient stars in the Milky Way reveals the first hints of nuclear fission in the cosmos, hinting at the existence of elements far heavier than anything found naturally on Earth.

LiveScience

Astronomers discover 25 'stripped stars' that may be a missing link in supernova science

The discovery of stars with their outer layers of hydrogen stripped by companions fills a glaring hole in our understanding of supernovas and binary systems with colliding neutron stars.

LiveScience

Intergalactic 'stream of stars' 10 times longer than the Milky Way is the 1st of its kind ever spotted

While hunting for dark matter, astronomers accidentally discovered the first known stellar stream stretching between galaxies. The trail of stars is also the longest ever seen.

Space

The Webb Telescope Went On A Hunt For Baby Stars But Accidentally Discovered Something Weirder

Astronomers looked into a relatively dark patch of the Milky Way center looking for traces of newly forming stars but found something else entirely.

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Space photo of the week: 'Magical' Milky Way cuts through the Valley of the Moon in Chile's Atacama Desert

Astrophotographer Petr Horálek shot this image of the Milky Way dazzling above strange geological formations in the desert close to the ALMA radio telescope array in Chile.

Inverse

Hubble Just Spotted An Ancient Globular Cluster ‘Stuffed Full of Stars’

A new Hubble Space Telescope image shows an ancient gathering of stars beyond the Milky Way.

Space

An 'extragalactic' intruder may lurk among stars orbiting the Milky Way's black hole

Potentially, the 1st "extragalactic" star found at the heart of our galaxy S0–6 appears to have taken a 10 billion-year-long journey to reach the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole.

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James Webb telescope discovers dark secret of 'The Brick,' a gas cloud flipping assumptions about how stars are born

Peering deep into 'The Brick,' a dark, chaotic gas cloud at the heart of the Milky Way, the James Webb Space Telescope uncovered secrets that could shake up theories of star formation.

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Could a 'supervoid' solve an unrelenting debate over the universe's expansion rate?

Measurements of how fast the universe is expanding differ depending on how you measure the rate. Could a huge under-density of galaxies, including the Milky Way, be to blame?

LiveScience

Intergalactic 'stream of stars' 10 times longer than the Milky Way is the 1st of its kind ever spotted

While hunting for dark matter, astronomers accidentally discovered the first known stellar stream stretching between galaxies. The trail of stars is also the longest ever seen.

Zenger

Mysterious Region At Center Of Milky Way Could Hold Secrets Of Universe

Research into a mysterious dark region at the center of the Milky Way could provide answers as to how our universe was formed

Space

A mysterious river of gas flowing into the Milky Way has stars inside after all

For the first time since its discovery, scientists have found stars within the Magellanic Stream, a mighty river of hydrogen gas emanating from two small galaxies in the outskirts of the Milky Way.

LiveScience

James Webb telescope reveals 'nursery' of 500,000 stars in the chaotic heart of the Milky Way

A dazzling new James Webb telescope image of the region near the Milky Way's central black hole reveals thousands of newborn stars among the "most extreme cosmic environment" in the galaxy.

Space

The Milky Way lights up the 'Valley of the moon' in magical new night sky photo

The European Southern Observatory shared a mesmerizing new photo of the Milky Way shining above Valle de la Luna, meaning "Valley of the Moon," in Chile's Atacama Desert.

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In a first, a newborn star's spinning disk is seen in another galaxy

Researchers said they have spotted such a disk around a star larger and more luminous than the sun residing in one of our nearest neighbouring galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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