milky way
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Wild Theory Suggests Dark Matter Could Make Stars Immortal
Stars very close to the center of our galaxy could be fueled by dark matter in perpetuity, according to a team of astronomers who recently studied the distant light sources. The group of stars, known as S-cluster stars, is just three light-years from the center of the Milky Way (for reference, we are about 26,000…
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25 Jaw Dropping Photos of the Milky Way Taken From Around the World
Our galaxy stretches across 100,000 light-years and contains somewhere between 100 to 400 billion stars. It appears in our night skies as a long, hazy strip of light littered with celestial objects. Photographers worldwide have been captivated by the sight of the Milky Way from Earth, capturing its incredible details in stunning high-contrast images. Capture…
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Astronomers Uncover Micro ‘Galaxy’ Orbiting the Milky Way
The weird, faint star system—the tiniest Milky Way satellite ever found—could be under the influence of dark matter.
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Gaia Mission Discovers Half a Million New Stars and 150,000 Asteroids
The latest data release from the European Space Agency’s Gaia observatory just dropped, and it’s a massive one: the spacecraft has identified half a million stars in a nearby cluster, nearly 400 gravitational lenses, and the orbits of some 156,000-odd asteroids. This outpouring of science is part of the observatory’s third data release, the first part…