Legendary Gaia Spacecraft Maps Entire Galaxy, Promptly Retires
The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...
South African telescope discovers a giant galaxy that’s 32 times bigger than Earth’s
The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and ...
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Supermassive black holes in 'little red dot' galaxies are 1,000 times larger than they should be, and astronomers don't know why
"Little red dot" galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early cosmos appear to be ruled by supermassive ...
ESA’s Gaia Spacecraft Wraps Up Revolutionary Milky Way Mapping Mission
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
A tiny galaxy ceased making stars for billions of years. Then it rebooted.
But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space ...
Tiny Galaxy, Big Discoveries: NGC 300 and the Secrets of Cosmic Growth
Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...
X-ray echoes reveal 3D structure of molecular clouds in our galaxy's center
Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...
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Dyslexic teenager passes driving test using 'left' and 'right' handed tattoos
A dyslexic teenager has passed her driving test after she got 'left' and 'right' tattoos on her hands. Alexis Morris, 18, has ...
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Deep space radio burst is detected from a 'dead galaxy,' baffling scientists
Instead of finding the radio burst in a region of young stars, researchers traced its origin to the outskirts of a “dead” ...
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A tiny galaxy ceased making stars for billions of years. Then it rebooted.
The dwarf galaxy, known as Leo P and about 5.3 million light-years from Earth, is offering new insights ... This allowed them to map out the stellar birth rate over time. The team speculates ...