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An international team of researchers under the leadership of Dr Florian Peißker at the University of Cologne’s Institute of Astrophysics ...

For two decades, scientists have observed an elongated object named X7 near the supermassive black hole at the center of ...

Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering ...

New images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars — elongated ...

Astronomers say they have solved an outstanding problem that challenged our understanding of how the Universe evolved - the spatial ...

The first map of the ‘galactic underworld’ – a chart of the corpses of once massive suns that have since ...

Using data from the Gaia space telescope, a team led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden has shown that ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have spotted signs of a ‘hot spot’ orbiting Sagittarius A*, the black ...

A new simulation conducted on the world’s most powerful supercomputer dedicated to astronomy has produced a testable scenario to explain ...

24 August 2022 The Geological Society of America Release no. 22-44 Contributed by Laura Fattaruso Contact: Kea Giles +1-303-357-1057 [email protected] ...

Cambridge, Mass. – A team of international experts who are known for debunking black hole discoveries have found a dormant ...

Milky seas – the rare phenomenon of glowing areas on the ocean’s surface that can cover hundreds of square miles ...

An animated dive into the dusty Milky Way reveals the outlines of our galaxy taking shape as we look out ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers led by physics professor Charles Gammie is part of ...

University of Notre Dame researchers, along with collaborators in China and Australia, published a new sample catalog of more than ...

An unprecedented new telescope image of the Milky Way galaxy’s turbulent center has revealed nearly 1,000 mysterious strands, inexplicably dangling ...

An international team of researchers, led by postgraduate student Alexis Andrés, has found that the black hole at the centre ...

Astronomers are one step closer to revealing the properties of dark matter enveloping our Milky Way galaxy, thanks to a ...

98.5% of the Sun is made up of two light chemical elements, hydrogen and helium, while the remaining 1.5% consists ...

Using observations and archival data from several of NSF's NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world and ...