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Astronomers map tangled, supersonic filaments in distant interstellar gas cloud
A team of astronomers has uncovered an unexpectedly complex and dynamic filamentary network within a very-high-velocity cloud ...
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Astronomers find a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way that is much older than it should be
The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.
Astronomers detect most massive black hole collision to date
A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...
Astronomers find giant hidden molecular cloud fueling star birth in Milky Way
An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...
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Fire and ice: Astronomers discover two very different exoplanets orbiting one star
A rocky planet with a 24-hour orbit and an ice giant that takes five years to complete its orbit have been detected orbiting ...
Astronomers Catch a Giant Planet Forming in a Swirl of Dust
A star once thought empty was actually hiding a giant planet. New imaging and Gaia data exposed the surprising discovery of a ...
Astronomers capture birth of new solar system around a sun-like baby star
Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away.
Dozens of ‘Ghost Galaxies’ Are Orbiting the Milky Way, Astronomers Suspect
Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological ...
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Astronomers say new interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is 'very likely to be the oldest comet we have ever seen'
However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...
What astronomers recently discovered about space using supercomputers
Cosmologists at Durham University in England made the discovery using a new technique that combines the highest-resolution ...