Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of ...

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Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...

I began photographing the Milky Way around 2018, but the hobby took off in earnest for me at the onset of the COVID years as ...

Astronomers have discovered what they are calling the largest-known structure in the universe. Named "Quipu" after an Incan ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

Scientists have detected the most energetic neutrino yet, 30 times stronger than previous records. Found in the Mediterranean ...

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Astronomers rely on it to draw parallels with the Milky Way, where direct observation is limited by our location within its spiral arms. “Without Andromeda as a proxy for spiral galaxies in the ...

They published a paper in the May 2008 issue of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society entitled “The Collision Between the Milky Way and Andromeda.” (Admittedly, be wary of the term ...