The newly-discovered star, SDSS J0715-7334, formed in the halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud and migrated to our Milky Way Galaxy billions of years ago,...
Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission and the NASA Exoplanet Archive, astronomers at Cornell University have identified 45 rocky exoplanets in the empirical...
Using a vast catalog of Sun-like stars built by ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have found strong evidence that our home star traveled outward with thousands...
The newly-identified gas cloud, dubbed G2t, follows nearly the same orbit as two known clouds, suggesting they were all expelled by a pair of massive stars...
With the record-setting image from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have mapped the molecular heart of our Milky Way...
For decades, the motions of stars near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy have been treated as some of the clearest evidence for a supermassive black hole....
NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) space telescope has completed its first...
To determine the motion of the Solar System, Bielefeld University astrophysicist Lukas Böhme and his colleagues analyzed the distribution of radio galaxies.
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The Galactic Center excess is an unexpected concentration of gamma-rays emerging from the center of our Milky Way Galaxy.
This view shows the entire sky...
Located in the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, Sagittarius B2 is an enormous molecular cloud of gas and dust roughly 3 million times the mass of the Sun.
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Dark dwarfs are hypothetical dark matter-powered objects that formed from the cooling of brown dwarfs, according to a team of astronomers from Durham University,...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a major new scientific facility jointly funded by NSF and the U.S. DoE’s Office of Science. The new images are a small...
Each spring, billions of Bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) escape hot conditions across southeast Australia by migrating up to 1,000 km to a place that they...
It is commonly believed that our own Milky Way Galaxy is on a collision course with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. As a result of their merger, predicted...
SGR 0501+4516 is the likeliest candidate in our Milky Way Galaxy for a magnetar that was not born in a supernova explosion as initially predicted; the...
The mass of the supermassive black hole in the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, is about 600,000 solar...
As our Solar System orbits the Milky Way, it encounters various environments, including dense regions of the interstellar medium. These encounters can...
This supernova event likely occurred in the Upper Centaurus Lupus association, a group of massive stars approximately 457 light-years away from Earth.
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