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These objects were actually the Andromeda and Messier 33 galaxies, the closest large galaxies to our Milky Way. Today, up to ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery using Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope, identifying three mysterious ...

The Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) differs dramatically from our local solar neighbourhood, both in the extreme ...

Edwin Hubble is celebrated as one of the 20th century's most influential cosmologists, renowned for his pivotal contributions ...

A group of international scientists discovered three ultra-massive “Red Monster” galaxies capable of forming their own stars ...

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Do You Know the Milky Way? (by Karl Wittlinger) presents two actors playing twelve roles in a search for one man's identity. They never find it. Hal Holbrook (best known for his Mark Twain ...

In the early Universe, long before they should have had time to grow, astronomers have found what they're calling 'red ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...