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The mystery at heart of Milky Way: Astronomers still stewing after 70 years over mushroom clouds at centre of galaxy… so were they caused by exploding stars or a black hole swallowing a gas cloud? The bizarre cloud were first spotted in the 1950s and called the North Polar Spur Experts put forward several ideas … Read more
The Milky Way may be full of dead aliens who were ‘annihilated’ by their own science and technologies, study suggests A new study finds aliens have emerged eight billion years before the Milky Way Researchers suggest the reason we have not made contact is most are dead The team looked at the theory that the … Read more
Astronomers from the UK have created a new map of the Milky Way made up of nearly two billion stars using data gathered by the European Space Agency (ESA) Gaia space observatory. University of Cambridge experts led the creation of the cosmic atlas of two billion stars, that they believe could shed light on how … Read more
‘Fossil galaxy’ discovered deep within the Milky Way is the remnant of a star cluster that collided with our own 10 BILLION years ago and was absorbed into its ‘halo’, astronomers claim Experts analysed the composition and motion of tens of thousands of stars This allowed them to identify the hidden remnant of the galactic collision The … Read more
‘Fossil galaxy’ discovered deep within the Milky Way is the remnant of a star cluster that collided with our own 10 BILLION years ago and was absorbed into its ‘halo’, astronomers claim Experts analysed the composition and motion of tens of thousands of stars This allowed them to identify the hidden remnant of the galactic collision The … Read more
The first radio burst discovered in the Milky Way is now repeating as it travels from a magnetar – a neutron star with a strong magnetic field – 32,616 light-years away. The initial flash of energy was first detected in April and scientist have identified two more, confirming fast radio bursts ‘are emitted by magnetars … Read more
There are around 300 million planets that exist outside our Solar System but within the Milky Way which could potentially harbour life, according to NASA. Four of them are within just 30 light-years from Earth, with the closest just 20 light-years away, the space agency states. Researchers arrived at the 300 million figure based on … Read more
NASA speculates there are hundreds of rogue planets hiding all across the galaxy and may actually outnumber the hundreds of billions of stars. These free-floating orbs travel around space unattached to a larger star and an orbital telescope set to launch in 2025 aims to uncover their existence. According to researchers, the $4 billion Nancy … Read more
A distant galaxy that looks ‘surprisingly like our Milky Way’, has been discovered by astronomers, who say it appears like a near-perfect ring of light in space. Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute used the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to find the galaxy 12 billion light years away. The galaxy … Read more
An image of a spectacular butterfly-shaped bubble of gas in the Milky Way has been captured by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescope. The striking planetary nebula, known as NGC 2899, appears to float and flutter across the sky in this pristine image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. A planetary nebula is created … Read more