One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies?
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
Largest known object in universe found in..! 13000 times bigger than Milky way, its name is….
Space has always captured human curiosity. Whether it's vastness, mystery or its planetary bodies. Many individuals, at some ...
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Two enormous "bubbles" discovered towering above and below our Milky Way galaxy
In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...
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100 years ago: Edwin Hubble proved the Milky Way is not the only galaxy in the universe
In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...
Monster Radio Jet Twice The Width Of The Milky Way Discovered: 'This Object Is So Extreme'
"It's only because this object is so extreme that we can observe it from Earth, even though it's really far away," Anniek ...
Runaway planet found orbiting ultra-fast star for first time – it’s flying through Milky Way 4X faster than lightning
ASTRONOMERS may have just found the fastest exoplanet system in the galaxy – a super-Neptune world orbiting a hypervelocity ...
Largest Structure In Universe, 13,000 Times The Length Of Milky Way Discovered: Study
Astronomers have discovered what they are calling the largest-known structure in the universe. Named "Quipu" after an Incan ...
Telescopes spy massive phenomenon from early days of universe that’s twice the width of Milky Way
Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...
Scans of seemingly empty space reveal black holes not far from earth
In the sky, Gaia BH3 is located about 2,000 light years away in the constellation Aquila and appears to be a passive black ...
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Milky Way's Massive Black Hole Spaghettified Filament Of Gas
A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...
Andromeda Galaxy: A barred spiral galaxy, the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It was originally named Andromeda Nebula.
Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...
Peculiar icy objects in outer reaches of the Milky Way perplex astronomers
A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded icy objects" thousands of light years from Earth. Takashi Shimonishi, ...