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Astronomers have discovered the cosmic equivalent of an overbearing parent dropping by uninvited to a teenagers’ party to make sure they all have enough water. An aging star has been detected for the first time passing through a young star-forming regi… Continue reading Ancient interloper star may have helped kickstart life on Earth
When Meatloaf sang “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” in 1977, we’re all but certain he was not doing the math on the potential of planets in the galaxy having the right conditions to harbor life. Because new findings suggest that two out of three are actual… Continue reading New findings suggest hundreds of millions of planets may harbor life
Black holes come in two distinct types – small and supermassive. A group in the middle has long been hypothesized to exist, and now Hubble has found some strong evidence for one of these intermediate-mass black holes in a nearby star cluster.Continue R… Continue reading Evidence suggests theoretical ‘missing link’ black hole exists nearby
The most comprehensive picture of the Milky Way galaxy just got even more detailed, as ESA’s Gaia mission has unveiled its third data release. The new dataset updates information on almost two billion stars, including their makeup and movements, as wel… Continue reading Gaia maps two billion Milky Way objects in unprecedented detail
The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped its first in-focus image. The milestone comes after the mission team spent the last few weeks aligning its mirrors, and the telescope is now set to meet or even exceed its original science goals. It was also r… Continue reading James Webb snaps first in-focus image – and photobombs another spacecraft
Astronomers have discovered a big hole in space. New 3D visualizations of the Perseus and Taurus star-forming clouds have revealed a large cavity between them, possibly created in ancient supernova explosions.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTag… Continue reading Astronomers discover where a cosmic cataclysm blew a huge hole in space
A team has made a few intriguing discoveries in the outermost regions of the Milky Way. The astronomers mapped the fringes of the sparse halo that envelops our home galaxy, and found the wake of a dwarf galaxy pushing through it on its eventual collisi… Continue reading New Milky Way map reveals wake of dwarf galaxy on a collision course
Astronomers have discovered the aftermath of a cosmic hit-and-run in our own galactic neighborhood. While studying the closest star cluster to the Sun, ESA scientists realized that it may have been disrupted by a huge lump of invisible mass, possibly d… Continue reading Dark matter drive-by may have disrupted closest star cluster to Earth
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
Based on data from the Kepler Space Telescope and the Gaia mission, there may be up to 300 million habitable planets in the Milky Way galaxy, according to a team of scientists from the SETI Institute, NASA, and other international organizations. The re… Continue reading Up to 300 million planets in the Milky Way may be habitable