Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way
Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...
A recipe for baby stars: Just add fluffy molecular clouds
“The data indicates that the youngest stars form in filaments of gas,” Loeb said. “Subsequently the gas cools and fragments ...
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Can Hubble Still Compare to the James Webb Space Telescope?
The Tarantula Nebula is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star-forming region within a nearby satellite ...
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White Dwarf Star Exploded Several Hundred Years Ago
A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to several hundred of years. The remnant is located in the "Large Magellanic ...
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Hubble Telescope sets its eyes on cosmic cotton candy near the Tarantula Nebula (photo)
The Hubble Space Telescope captured the ​​colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most luminous and ...
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Deadly black hole, 6 lakh times heavier than the sun, heading for Milky Way: Scientists warn
A supermassive black hole, six lakh times the mass of the Sun, is moving towards the Milky Way from the Large Magellanic Cloud. Scientists, led by astrophysicist Jiwon Jesse Han, identified this ...
AI Just Discovered a Hidden Cosmic Blast That Could Transform Astronomy
A long-lost cosmic explosion, buried within two decades of NASA's Chandra X-ray data, has finally been uncovered by ...
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Strange X-ray flash from beyond the Milky Way perplexes scientists
"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...
Breakthrough enables measurement of local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements
Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville ...
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It comprises 80% of the known universe. But we know almost nothing about it -- until now.
Researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville say they have made a major breakthrough in the study of dark matter in ...
Unusual X-ray Flash in Large Magellanic Cloud Puzzles Astronomers
Rare X-ray flash XRT 200515 spotted in the Large Magellanic Cloud Scientists suggest a neutron star or magnetar as a possible source Future observations may reveal a new cosmic phenomenon ...