Hubble Hits the ‘Bullseye,’ a Galaxy With Record-Breaking 9 Rings
The Hubble Space Telescope just imaged a massive bullseye in space: LEDA 1313424, or the Bullseye Galaxy, which is about 2.5 ...
Hubble Telescope Snaps Galaxy With Way More Rings Than Any Other
The Bullseye galaxy earned its nickname thanks to its wild number of rings. A smaller galaxy shot through its heart 50 ...
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See The Milky Way Galaxy's Warp In This Animation
Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, Adrian Price-Whelan ...
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Look up: A guide to the Irish night sky in spring
From planets and constellations, to eclipses and the Aurora Borealis, here's what to look for in the sky this spring ...
Nasa's newest space telescope set for launch in February, to map entire sky
Made with a budget of $488 million, Nasa's SPHEREx mission is expected to launch in February 2025. The advanced infrared ...
'Fermi’s deadly secret': The invisible shockwave still expanding in our galaxy
The Fermi Bubbles, massive shockwaves from a black hole eruption, still expand over the Milky Way. This event reshaped our ...
NASA’s new SPHEREx telescope set to launch in February: What makes it unique and what will it discover?
NASA's SPHEREx mission, set to launch in February 2025, will utilize an advanced infrared telescope to map the entire sky in ...
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100 years ago: Edwin Hubble proved the Milky Way is not the only galaxy in the universe
In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...
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Astronomers Uncover a Strange Interstellar Tunnel Inside the Local Bubble
For decades, scientists have marveled at the Local Hot Bubble—a vast, low-density region stretching roughly 1,000 light-years ...
Milky Way quiz: How well do you know our home galaxy?
So how well do you know the Milky Way? Let's test your knowledge of our galaxy's size, age, speed and more with the 15 ...
'Planet parade' marches on in Connecticut's skies, just as 'galaxy season' begins for stargazers
Watchers of the Connecticut skies should be able to watch the planets line up for 'parade' in February, and the start of ...
Gaia Completes Its Stellar Odyssey, Leaving a Cosmic Legacy
The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...