milky way
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Bask in the Ethereal Beauty of These Artistic Astronomy Photographs
These gorgeous images of the sky are shortlisted in Royal Observatory Greenwich’s annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition
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‘We Have a Doughnut’: Astronomers React to First Image of Milky Way’s Black Hole
The fuzzy, bright-orange trappings of a cosmic beast that lurks in the heart of our galaxy made quite the impact today on scientists and space nerds alike. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration released its first image the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A*, in another major scientific…
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Why Some Scientists Are Sceptical of Space Command’s ‘Interstellar’ Meteor Claims
A new U.S. Space Command memo says that a meteor that fell to Earth in 2014 came from interstellar space. That would make it the first known interstellar object in our solar system, preceding ‘Oumuamua, a cigar-shaped object that first appeared in 2017 and seemed to come from another star system. But some scientists aren’t…
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Astrophysicists Found 1,000 Magnetic Milky Way ‘Strands’
A new mosaic image taken by the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa has revealed nearly 1,000 multi-light-year-long electron strands at the centre of the Milky Way. The strands are huge streaks of cosmic ray particles; though they were discovered nearly 40 years ago, researchers never knew there were so many.