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Astronomers Discover a Brown Dwarf Escaping the Milky Way

The object, named CWISE J1249, is racing through space at an astonishing speed of more than 1 million kilometers per hour, marking the first time such a phenomenon has been observed.

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Ancient Stars Near the Sun May Rewrite the History of the Milky Way

The study, which used data from the Gaia spacecraft, revealed that these ancient stars are located within the thin disk of the Milky Way—a region that was thought to have formed around 8 to 10 billion years ago.

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Astronomers Spot 'God’s Hand' Interstellar Cloud Stretching Across Space

The striking image depicts CG 4's eerie resemblance to a spectral hand reaching towards the spiral galaxy ESO 257-19, situated more than 100 million light-years away.

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Astronomers Discover Massive Black Hole in the Milky Way Using Gaia Telescope

Located just 2,000 light years away in the constellation Aquila, Gaia BH3 is the second-closest black hole to Earth and the most massive of its type found within our galaxy, with a mass of 33 times that of the Sun.

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Astronomers Capture Magnetic Fields Around the Milky Way's Central Black Hole

The image, which displays the magnetic structures in stunning detail, marks a significant advancement in our understanding of black holes and their magnetic environments.

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Strange Activity Detected Around Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole

Astrophysicists Gustavo Magallanes-Guijón and Sergio Mendoza from the National Autonomous University of Mexico have observed a distinct pattern: every 76.32 minutes, gamma-ray signals emanate from the vicinity of Sagittarius A*.

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A New Cosmic Atlas Reveals Stunning Details of 400,000 Nearby Galaxies

The Siena Galaxy Atlas is poised to become a valuable resource for astronomers, enabling them to analyze various aspects of the universe's structure, from galaxy formation and evolution to the distribution of enigmatic dark matter.

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IceCube Snaps the First Neutrino Image of the Milky Way

Neutrinos, often referred to as "ghost particles," are elementary particles that interact very weakly with matter, making them extremely challenging to detect. However, the IceCube detector has made this extraordinary feat possible.

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Astronomers Created a New Detailed Map of the Milky Way

The map is comprised of 21,400 individual exposures, with a final image showing a huge 3.32 billion celestial objects. The collected data accounts for around 6.5 percent of the entire night sky.

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The Milky Way May Have a Different Shape Than We Previously Thought

After a detailed study of the collected and systematized data, scientists suggested that the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy with only two main arms extending from a centralized cluster of stars.

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Astronomers Discover a "Mirror Image" of the Milky Way from Billions of Years Ago

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a galaxy that looks very similar to our Milky Way in its early stages of evolution. It was named the Sparkler because almost two dozen glittering globular clusters orbit it.

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We Can Now Hear the Sound of One of the Milky Way's Most Beautiful Stars

Converting visual data into auditory data makes it more accessible to people with visual impairments. In addition, this approach can reveal details in the data, like patterns and weaker signals, that might otherwise be overlooked.

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Astronomers Discover Alcohol Molecules in the Centre of the Milky Way

A group of scientists has discovered the largest alcohol molecule in space – isopropanol was found in the Sagittarius B2 gas-dust cloud near the center of the Milky Way. Sagittarius B2 is a massive star-forming region where new stars are born.

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Astronomers Discover a Star With the Widest Range of Elements

These elements were made by the rapid neutron capture process. During this process, an element gets additional neutrons that then “decay” into protons, which changes the atom into a new element.

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Humanity Will Need to Survive 400,000 Years to Make Contact With Aliens

In this study, the researchers were guided by data on the history of galactic star formation, metallicity distributions, and the probability of the existence of Earth-like planets in the habitable zones of stars.

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ESO Shares the First Image of the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way

We cannot see the black hole itself, since it is completely black, but the luminous gas around proves that it is there: the dark central region is surrounded by a bright ring-like structure. The new image captures light distorted by the powerful gravity of the black hole.

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Scientists Plan to Create a New Message for Intelligent Aliens

The message will include information on the Earth's principles of communication, the basic mathematical and physical concepts, the structure of DNA, as well as people, and the Earth as a whole.

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Astronomers Discover an Ultra-Faint Satellite of Milky Way

Pegasus IV is classified as an ultra-faint galaxy. Such objects are characterized by extremely low brightness but are rich in mysterious dark matter. Ultra-faint galaxies are thought to be very ancient objects, formed shortly after the Big Bang.

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Astronomers Discover a Mysterious Spinning Object in the Milky Way

The scientists established that the object is about four thousand light years from Earth. So far, astronomers can only say that it is incredibly bright and has an extremely strong magnetic field.

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Scientists Detect Up to 170 New Rogue Planets Wandering our Galaxy

If a planet is young and hot, its own residual heat helps find it. That's how scientists found the new rogue planets this time after analyzing 80,000 images taken over the past 20 years of astronomical observations.

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NASA Shares a New Panorama of the Center of the Milky Way

It is noted that our own galaxy is difficult to study, as it is hidden by a fog of gas and dust. But the researchers were able to penetrate it precisely with the help of the X-ray observatory Chandra, which sees X-rays instead of visible light.