The Milky Way could be part of a much larger 'cosmic neighborhood' than we realized, challenging our understanding of the universe
A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger ...
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James Webb Space Telescope Captures Stunning 4K View Of Milky Way's Heart
The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...
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Chaotic, ancient stars hint at Milky Way merger history
Astronomers hypothesize that a long-ago dwarf galaxy dubbed Loki may have merged with the Milky Way when our galaxy was in ...
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Astronomers’ discovery of distant Milky Way-like galaxy challenges our theories of how cosmos evolved
Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it ...
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Furthest 'Milky Way-Like' Galaxy Uncovered Using ALMA
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the early universe. Credit:ESO Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and Martin ...
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Record-breaking Milky Way map showcases 1.5 billion objects: 'We have changed the view of our galaxy forever'
The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of over 1.5 billion objects within our galaxy. The 200,000 images were collected by the Visible and Infrared Survey ...
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Stunning images of Milky Way captured in record-breaking detail – and scientists see 10x more cosmic objects than before
BREATHTAKING new images of the Milky Way have been been revealed as part ... “We made so many discoveries, we have changed the view of our Galaxy forever,” Dante Minniti, an astrophysicist ...
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Scientists make most detailed ever infrared map of the Milky Way, changing view of our galaxy
The huge map has already helped changed our view of the galaxy in unexpected ways ... the scientists monitored the central regions of the Milky Way for more than 13 years.
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How special is the Milky Way Galaxy?
The satellite images are sorted by their luminosity from left to right. Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer this question ...
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How special is the Milky Way Galaxy?
Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer this question more than a decade ago. Commenced in 2013, the Satellites Around Galactic ...
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How special is the Milky Way galaxy? Survey team releases new findings
More information: Yao-Yuan Mao et al, The SAGA Survey. III. A Census of 101 Satellite Systems around Milky Way-mass Galaxies, arXiv (2024).DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.14498 Marla Geha et al, The SAGA ...
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The SAGA saga: Putting the Milky Way’s ‘peculiarities’ into context
A long-term survey of small, “satellite” galaxies that orbit larger galaxies across the universe offers new insights into our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Since 2012, the Satellites Around Galactic ...