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Two colliding galaxies have been found to be reorganizing their dwarf satellites, potentially solving a major conundrum ...
A groundbreaking study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics has revealed that the supermassive black hole at the center of ...
Ursa Major III/Unions 1 (UMa3/U1), the faintest known satellite of our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more ...
A new analysis of the EHT reveals that Sagittarius A*, the central black hole of the Milky Way, is spinning rapidly and ...
The Ancient City Astronomy Club is hosting an event called Night Under the Stars from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday at the St.
Astronomers at Leiden University have detected rare isotopes of carbon and oxygen in our neighboring stars for the first time ...
Astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a huge expanding bubble of gas and dust ...
To see the Milky Way in all its glory, you'll want to keep the Bortle scale in mind. This scale measures night sky brightness, going from 1 (excellent dark sky, typically seen in the most remote ...
New evidence suggests that a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way called Ursa Major III is actually a star cluster.
The Milky Way is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky throughout the United States, ...
The photo of the Milky Way was taken last summer by Alan Sheidler of the Popular Astronomy Club during a trip to Zion National Park in Utah. A time exposure of 25 seconds was used to capture the ...
The stellar outcast is rocketing through the Milky Way's distant outskirts at 1.6 million miles an hour, high above the galaxy's disk, about 200,000 light-years from the center.