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Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope spotted surprisingly cold, dense hydrogen clouds embedded inside the Milky Way’s ...
The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly?
Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...
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How weird is the Milky Way?
By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...
Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...
In the vast expanse of the universe, there are cosmic giants so enormous that they stretch our understanding of scale and ...
"The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," according to the Capture the Atlas ...
Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...
Researchers have discovered cold hydrogen clouds within superheated Fermi bubbles at the Milky Way's center, challenging ...
Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...
Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...