SYFY WIREBlack Holes The fastest star in the galaxy has been found, and yeah, it’s really *really* fast verified_publisherSYFY WIRE - Phil Plait While peering deep into the heart of the galaxy, astronomers have found the fastest star ever seen. This thing is tearing through space; at one point …
ForbesMilky Way Galaxy 5 Little-Known Facts About The Sun’s Journey Through The Galaxy Forbes - Bruce DormineyOur Sun’s journey around the Milky Way’s galactic center puts it through some of the most complicated motions imaginable. Since time immemorial, astronomers and celestial mechanics have struggled to understand...
ForbesAndromeda Galaxy How You Can Look 2.5 Million Years Back In Time By Finding The Andromeda Galaxy With Your Naked Eyes Forbes - Jamie CarterHave you ever seen a giant galaxy with your own naked eyes? That’s exactly what’s on offer to stargazers this season—but only for those that know exactly where to look. The galaxy in question is the famous...
SYFY WIREScience The fastest spinning star in the galaxy verified_publisherSYFY WIRE - Phil Plait An astronomer has found the fastest spinning star known in our galaxy… and it's a doozy. It's rotating at the dizzying speed of at least 540 …
Dark Matter The puzzle of the strange galaxy made of 99.9% dark matter is solved phys.org - Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias At present, the formation of galaxies is difficult to understand without the presence of a ubiquitous, but mysterious component, termed dark matter. …
VoxAndrea Ghez Watch: Nobel Prize-winning efforts show stars orbiting the black hole at the center of our galaxy verified_publisherVox - Brian ResnickScientists can’t see the supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius A*, at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. But they can sense the enormous gravitational power it has on the stars around it. Stars,...
VICEUniverse A Black Hole Is Eating a Web of Galaxies on the Edge of Spacetime verified_publisherVICE - Becky FerreiraIt has taken virtually the entire lifespan of the universe for the light from the 'Web of the Giant' to reach Earth. Scientists have peered back in time to the early universe and witnessed an extremely...
Galaxies We may have seen a huge explosion in the oldest galaxy in the universe newscientist.com - By Jonathan O’Callaghan An explosion of high-energy radiation may have been spotted coming from a galaxy in the distant universe. If confirmed, it would be the oldest known …
SYFY WIRESupernovae Supernovas that happened in galaxies far, far away have left the most bizarre evidence on Earth verified_publisherSYFY WIRE - Elizabeth Rayne When stars go supernova, that usually happens too many millions of light years away to actually have any impact on us Earthlings…right? Not all cosmic …
ScienceAlertX-rays It's Official: The Fast Radio Burst Coming From Within Our Galaxy Is Repeating verified_publisherScienceAlert - Michelle Starr The first object within the Milky Way galaxy caught emitting fast radio bursts is now officially a repeater. In a new peer-reviewed paper, SGR …
ScienceAlertUniverse A Giant 'Wall' of Galaxies Has Been Found Stretching Across The Universe verified_publisherScienceAlert - Michelle Starr The Universe isn't just a random scattering of galaxies sprinkled throughout an expanding void. The closer we look, the more we see that there are …
Spacecraft A 'tsunami' for astrophysics: New Gaia data reveals the best map of our galaxy yet space.com - Megan Gannon Astronomers were hit today (Dec. 3) with a huge wave of data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory. Those researchers can now …
ScienceAlertUniverse Astronomers Detect a Giant Galaxy Lighting Up The Universe Right After The Big Bang verified_publisherScienceAlert - MATT WILLIAMS About 370,000 years after the Big Bang, the Universe experienced a period that cosmologists refer to as the "Cosmic Dark Ages." During this period, …
FirstpostGalaxies Researchers measure and confirm the distance to oldest, farthest galaxy GN-z11 in the universe- Technology News, Firstpost Firstpost Researchers from the University of Tokyo have now accurately measured the distance to the oldest and furthermost galaxy that has ever been detected. …
Space Telescope The farthest galaxy in the universe phys.org - University of Tokyo A team of astronomers used the Keck I telescope to measure the distance to an ancient galaxy. They deduced the target galaxy GN-z11 is not only the …
SYFY WIRESpace You think *you're* isolated today? Meet the galaxy MCG+01-02-015 verified_publisherSYFY WIRE - Phil Plait To all my USAian readers, happy Thanksgiving! Given our current situation — that is, apparently in the third act of a movie that starts off with …
Galaxies We've mapped a million previously undiscovered galaxies beyond the Milky Way. Take the virtual tour here. theconversation.com - Aidan Hotan Astronomers have mapped about a million previously undiscovered galaxies beyond the Milky Way, in the most detailed survey of the southern sky ever …
MashableHubble Space Telescope Hubble stared at this magnificent galaxy for nine hours to capture the perfect shot verified_publisherMashable - Mark KaufmanAstronomers worked hard to get this galactic glamour shot. "Looking this good isn’t easy," wrote NASA on Friday. "30 different exposures, for a total of nine hours of observation time, together with the...
Galaxies Astronomers find huge, previously unknown cluster of 'surprising' stars at the centre of our galaxy independent.co.uk - Andrew Griffin Astronomers have found a huge, previously unknown cluster of stars lurking at the centre of our galaxy. The “ancient stellar population” is made up of …
ForbesUniverse Heat Is Building Up In Galaxies Across The Universe [Infographic] Forbes - Kevin AndertonNew research from Johns Hopkins University shows that the galaxies of the universe are getting hotter. The universe was created somewhere around 13 billion years ago and since that time planets, solar...
AvatarDigital TrendsLoneliness Wandering planets could outnumber the stars in our galaxy verified_publisherDigital Trends - Georgina Torbet In the depths of space, in the vast expanses between stellar systems, there float lonely planets which have no star to orbit around. These isolated …
Andromeda Galaxy How to photograph the Andromeda galaxy with a DSLR camera skyatnightmagazine.com - Pete Lawrence The Andromeda Galaxy, designated M31, is said to be the farthest thing you can see with the unaided eye from a normal dark-sky location – …
ForbesUniverse How Scientists Will Break The Record For Most Distant Galaxy Ever Forbes - Ethan SiegelIf you want to find the very first galaxy of all, you have to understand not only what you’re looking for, but everything that lies in between you and the object that you’re seeking. In many ways, the...
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