The telescope's dome is complete and protective panels are now being installed. Construction of the Extremely Large Telescope has reached another …
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Milky Way Galaxy: Guiding the Past, Present and Future of Space Exploration
Astronomers have discovered three ancient stars "on the run" in the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, racing the wrong way at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour. Despite being spritely for their age, the three stars are so old that they date back to the formation of the first galaxies. That's between one and two billion years after the Big Bang.
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"They're all quite fast — hundreds of kilometers per second, going the wrong way." Astronomers have discovered three ancient stars "on the run" in the …
Supermassive black holes appear to have varying cosmic etiquette. How do you satiate the hunger of a supermassive black hole? With light-years-long …
The discovery could help astronomers better understand how cosmic magnetic fields form and evolve. The outer halo of the Milky Way is filled with …
Do galaxies, including our own Milky Way, orbit anything in the universe? It seems like everything orbits something in space. Moons orbit planets. …
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