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NASA has released a collection of 50 stunning Hubble images to celebrate the veteran telescope’s 30th anniversary, which took place earlier this year. The images show 30 cosmic objects, ranging from planetary nebulae to galaxies in incredible detail, r… Continue reading Hubble gallery showcases 30 cosmic gems visible to amateur astronomers
ESA has made public a colossal data release from the agency’s Gaia observatory, which is currently engaged in a mission to survey 1 billion stars orbiting in the Milky Way. The data has already borne fruit, shedding light on the violent history of our … Continue reading New Gaia data reveals the motion of our galaxy in extravagant detail
Astronomers are a step closer to solving a cosmic mystery, thanks to new Hubble data. Observations from the space telescope show a dwarf galaxy previously found to be missing most of its dark matter is being stripped of this matter by a larger nearby g… Continue reading Missing dark matter mystery reveals a galaxy entering death spiral
For two decades the Japanese VERA radio astronomy project has been gathering data to build up a 3D map of the position and velocity of objects revolving in our galaxy. The latest analysis indicates that the Earth is 2,000 light-years closer to the cent… Continue reading Earth is 2,000 light-years closer to galactic center than we thought
Astronomers have found a distant galaxy that has managed to continue making new stars despite the presence of a disruptive “cold quasar” raging at its core. The discovery was made using the airborne SOFIA telescope, which, mounted in the side of a spec… Continue reading Starbirth in spite of feasting black hole prompts galaxy evolution rethink
A research team led by Danny Horta at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) has discovered a fossil galaxy within the Milky Way. Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), the scien… Continue reading “Fossil galaxy” found in the heart of the Milky Way
A team of astronomers has completed a massive survey of the Milky Way’s central bulge, which captured the light fingerprint of over 250 million stars, and could help provide new insights into our galaxy’s history and creation. A massive 50,000 x 25,000… Continue reading Survey of Milky Way yields huge 50,000 x 25,000-pixel zoomable image
Decades ago, Einstein predicted the existence of something he didn’t believe in — black holes. Ever since then, people have been trying to get a glimpse of these collapsed stars that represent the limits of our understanding of physics.
For the last 25 years, Andrea Ghez has had her sights …read more
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Scientists have now estimated the total amount of matter in the universe, using a new, more precise method. By calculating the mass of hundreds of galaxy clusters, the team found that matter makes up less than a third of the contents of the universe.Co… Continue reading Scientists calculate how much matter there is in the universe
We’re used to seeing the output of telescopes as images, but what if we could translate that data into sound? A new “Sonification” project from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Center has done just that, letting us hear the center of the Milky Way, the supernova r… Continue reading NASA “Sonification” project lets us hear the cosmos