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Study Traces Our Solar System's Journey Through a Massive Galactic Wave
Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.
A 'surprisingly large' disk galaxy discovered in the early universe
An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which is three times larger than similar ...
Shockingly Tiny Galaxy Near Andromeda Is Just One-Millionth the Size of the Milky Way
Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...
Mysterious James Webb Discovery Could Mean We Live in a Black Hole
A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three ...
Scientists Uncover a Galactic Encounter That May Have Changed Earth’s Climate
Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...
Total turnaround in astronomy: a never-before-seen structure discovered in the solar system
The Solar System continues to surprise us day after day and its presence in terms of dominance and expansion goes far beyond ...
Mysterious radio pulses from the Milky Way ‘are unlike anything we knew before’
Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...
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Small, faint and 'unexpected in a lot of different ways': U-M astronomers make galactic discovery
The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV—located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the ...
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Earth's journey through the Milky Way may have altered our climate
Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.
7 jaw-dropping images of Milky Way Galaxy captured by NASA
The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, about 100,000 light-years across, containing roughly 200 billion stars, and our solar system is located about 26,000 light-years from its center. It takes ...
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Scientists discover smallest galaxy ever seen: 'It's like having a perfectly functional human being that's the size of a grain of rice'
The newfound galaxy ... a neat system. But it's also unexpected in a lot of different ways." One of the key aspects of ...
TOI-1453: Sub-Neptune in system of two exoplanets
Astronomers have discovered two exoplanets around TOI-1453, a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent from our ...