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'Herculean' 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows our closest galactic neighbor like never before — and took more than a decade to create
Prior to that 1915 discovery, scientists believed that all the stars in the night sky belonged to a single galaxy, and they had no concept of the scale of the wider universe. But in the century ...
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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Supermassive black holes in 'little red dot' galaxies are 1,000 times larger than they should be, and astronomers don't know why
The black holes seem way too massive compared to the mass of the stars in the galaxies that host them. In the modern universe, for galaxies close to our own Milky Way, supermassive black holes ...
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Stunning photo mosaic of neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy captures the glow of 200 million stars
Astronomers have released the most detailed image of the Andromeda galaxy with new ... distant objects in the universe — such as supernova explosions, red giant stars and Cepheid variable ...