The Milky Way is a rich and complex environment. We see it as a luminous line stretching across …
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Space
Tiny Crystals in Earth’s Crust Have Captured the Movement of the Milky Way’s Spiral Arms
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesWhen most of us think about what shaped our planet, we probably picture volcanoes, earthquakes, and huge continents …
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Discovery of Ancient Stars on the Stellar Thin Disk of the Milky Way
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesMachine learning shed new light on the formation history of our Milky Way: a surprising discovery about the …
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Astronomers reveal the most detailed radio image yet of the Milky Way’s galactic plane
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesTwo major astronomy research programs, called EMU and PEGASUS, have joined forces to resolve one of the mysteries …
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The first map of the “galactic underworld” — a chart of the corpses of once massive suns that …
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Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky …
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The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, which means that it is composed, among other components, of a …
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Breakthrough Listen Scans Milky Way Galaxy for Beacons of Civilization
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesThe Breakthrough Listen Initiative released data from the most comprehensive survey yet of radio emissions from the plane …