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The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.
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How weird is the Milky Way?
By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...
Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.
Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1. “It came from outside our solar system and right now, it's inside the orbit of ...
A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...
The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this week, and confirmed it was a ...
Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way. The exoplanet, a gas giant named AT2021uey b, orbits a low-mass star and is located about 3,200 light-years away from Earth ...
Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way.
Astronomers thought the Milky Way was doomed to crash into Andromeda. Now they're not so sure by Ruby Wright, Alexander Rawlings, The Conversation edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan ...
The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray ...
Source of the radio waves was tracked to a location that matches that of NASA’s defunct Relay 2 spacecraft, which launched in ...