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James Webb telescope uncovers mysterious Milky Way 'twin' in the early universeA Milky Way doppleganger discovered in the early universe suggests some key physical ingredient is missing from cosmological models.
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The oldest continents in the Milky Way may be 5 billion years older than Earth'sSeveral exoplanets at the edge of our galaxy could have formed continents — and advanced life — 5 billion years earlier than Earth, new research suggests.
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Space photo of the week: Warped 'hummingbird galaxy' guards a cosmic eggHubble's image of two colliding galaxies, known as Arp 142, show how a small galaxy's gravity has shredded a once-large spiral into a birdlike figure.
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Space photo of the week: Hubble spies a spectacular galaxy crashArp 107 hosts a special spiraling 'Seyfert' galaxy connected to a smaller galaxy by a 'bridge' of dust and gas.
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James Webb telescope spots thousands of Milky Way lookalikes that 'shouldn't exist' swarming across the early universeThousands of disk galaxies like our own Milky Way were spotted in the early universe, where they shouldn't exist.
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An ancient, ravenous black hole has been hiding an 11-billion-year-old galaxy in its glareA team of astronomers has used a tricky technique to study an ancient galaxy previously lost in the glare of a blazing quasar.
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'Grand cosmic fireworks': See the stunning winners of the 2023 astronomy photo of the year contestThe winning images from the Royal Observatory Greenwich's 15th annual astrophotography contest will blow you away.
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Our entire galaxy is warping, and a gigantic blob of dark matter could be to blameAn invisible halo of misaligned dark matter could explain the warps at the Milky Way's edges.
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How far apart are stars?Scientists have calculated the average distance between stars, but there's much more to star distribution than meets the eye.
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