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Giant 'X' appears over Chile as 2 celestial beams of light cross: Space photo of the weekThe bright band of the Milky Way and the faint glow of "zodiacal light" meet above the mountains of Chile's Atacama Desert in this stunning night sky photo.
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Space photo of the week: Hubble zooms in on the glittering galaxy next doorThe Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere.
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10 'breathtaking' photos of our galaxy from the 2024 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contestFrom dangerous lion reserves to high mountain peaks, photographers go all out to capture the most spectacular images of our galaxy in this year's Milky Way Photographer of the Year competition.
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'This is a journey, not a destination': Stunning map of the Milky Way's center exposes new mysteries about our galaxyA stunning new map of the magnetic fields at the Milky Way's center charts never-before-seen features, and raises new questions about how our galaxy's central engine works.
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James Webb telescope discovers dark secret of 'The Brick,' a gas cloud flipping assumptions about how stars are bornPeering deep into 'The Brick,' a dark, chaotic gas cloud at the heart of the Milky Way, the James Webb Space Telescope uncovered secrets that could shake up theories of star formation.
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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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Gargantuan 'Fermi bubbles' are the result of a 100,000-year-long black hole explosion, study suggestsNew research suggests that the mysterious Fermi and eROSITA bubbles originated form a single 100,000-year-long explosion 2.6 million years ago
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Astronomers chart invisible ocean of dark matter swirling outside the Milky WayAstronomers are hoping to use the wake of stars to test the existing theories of dark matter.
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Astronomers detect a bright-blue bridge of stars, and it's about to blowAstrophysicists think a newly discovered region of the Milky Way could provide hints about the evolution of our galaxy and its potentially violent past.
