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First Clear Image of a Star Beyond Our Galaxy: A Cosmic Breakthrough
Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...
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James Webb telescope reveals impressive "rings of life" in our galaxy
The James Webb Space Telescope reveals a true factory for the production and dissemination of elements essential to all ...
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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 ...
The Star That Proved the Universe Is Bigger Than We Imagined
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
Cosmological data suggest the universe has become 'messier and more complicated'
Across cosmic history, powerful forces have acted on matter, reshaping the universe into an increasingly complex web of ...
Smithsonian Magazine4d
Check Out the Hubble Space Telescope’s Stunning New View of the Andromeda Galaxy
The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...
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Hubble tension is now in our cosmic backyard, sending cosmology into crisis
The mystery of the Hubble tension has deepened with the startling finding that the Coma Cluster of galaxies is 38 million ...
Unexpected Findings: Scientists Reveal the Milky Way Is a Cosmic Outlier
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
Ars Technica11d
Is humanity alone in the Universe? What scientists really think.
In our new paper, published in Nature Astronomy ... It is reasonable to generalize from here to a truly gargantuan number of ...
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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Gaia's Farewell Gift Is The Best Milky Way Map We've Ever Seen
By that metric, the ESA's Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us a precise, 3D map of our Milky Way ...
Space.com9d
100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone
100 years ago, Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed ... Cepheid variables that he identified in our galaxy were the first rung. Next were RR Lyrae stars, which are another breed ...