milky way
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New App Points You Toward the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
If you want to stay grounded—which is to say, you want a haunting reminder of your own diminutive size and mortality—do I have the tool for you. Meet Galactic Compass: an app which will point the user towards the whopping black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. As you read this article,…
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Astronomers Spot Most Distant Galactic Magnetic Field Ever With Giant Desert Telescope
A team of scientists looking at a faraway galaxy using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected that galaxy’s magnetic field, making it the most distant galactic magnetic field yet detected. It’s not known how early magnetic fields formed around galaxies, so the new finding importantly pushes back that timeline. The astronomers used ALMA…
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Gaze in Wonder at These Stunning Views of the Cosmos
The cosmos is a hostile but beautiful place; from Earth, its phenomena — from our Sun and the aurorae it generates to nebulae and distant galaxies — are worth capturing.
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New Milky Way Visualisations Show the Dance of Millions of Stars in Incredible Detail
The European Space Agency’s Gaia observatory has just unleashed a “treasure trove” of data on nearly 2 billion stars in the Milky Way, revealing how fast they move toward or away from us, as well as unusual ‘starquakes’ that change the shapes of stars.