Astronomers find a rare ‘dark galaxy’ within our Local Group
Back to Article List The rotating disk galaxy, mostly made up of dark matter, was discovered within a larger cloud ...
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Speeding star offers a rare glimpse of the Milky Way’s galactic centre todayheadline
A map of the sky assembled using data from the Gaia space telescope, with the centre of the Milky Way ...
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Radcliffe wave: The solar system was once engulfed by a vast amount of gas and dust todayheadline
A visualisation of the Radcliffe wave, a series of dust and gas clouds (marked here in red) across the Milky ...
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What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy merge?
Back to Article List From the February 2025 issue Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther ...
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Binary star system finally discovered near Milky Way center
This image gazes toward the heart of the Milky Way, in the direction of its core. Credit: ESO/S. Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard) ...
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