On a clear night, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy look like close neighbors. In space, they really are.
They slip through your skin, your walls, and the whole Earth without leaving a mark. Neutrinos earn the nickname “ghost ...
The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
New radio observations of the Milky Way are exposing hidden patterns in its magnetic field. People have scanned the night sky ...
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Andromeda is headed toward the Milky Way, while other galaxies are moving away—and now we know why
A sheet of dark matter lying beyond the boundary of the Local Group is responsible for this.
The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...
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Hubble images globular cluster M72
Lurking in the southwestern corner of Aquarius the Water-bearer, globular cluster M72 doesn't stand out. At magnitude 9.4, it ...
Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its centre but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark matter exerting the same gravitational influence, astronomers say. They ...
New radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies could have rapidly merged together in the early ...
Hawaiʻi Island’s largest astronomy education program, Journey Through the Universe, hosted its 22nd year of classroom visits, career panels, and community events in Hilo last week.
A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments simulating interstellar space show that simple amino acids can link into peptides, ...
Follow-up observations with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) and new data from Parkes and the Green ...
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