101 Galaxies Later: Why the Milky Way Stands Out in the Universe
New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...
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Star cluster 9.4 quadrillion miles from Earth gives universe cosmic Valentine’s Day ‘rose’
Its cosmic corsage tells a story of death and rebirth. Within a few million years — a blink of an eye in the universe’s life — the gas and dust will either become budding young stars and planetary ...
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A tiny galaxy ceased making stars for billions of years. Then it rebooted.
Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Kristen McQuinn Most small galaxies that stopped making new stars in the early universe never resumed operations. Something caused their celestial factories to shutter.
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100 years ago: Edwin Hubble proved the Milky Way is not the only galaxy in the universe
In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...
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100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone
100 years ago, Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed ... telescopes were not powerful enough to resolve individual stars in other galaxies, so spiral galaxies appeared more like ...