For years, astronomers have been puzzled by the presence of two gigantic, high-energy “bubbles” towering over and beneath the Milky Way’s center, extending 50,000 light-years into space. First ...

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In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

The discovery was published on Jan 17 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a peer-reviewed scientific ...

In a remote part of the Milky Way, scientists have spotted strange "ice balls" that have puzzled them. These objects are ...

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NASA’s SPHEREx space observatory will provide astronomers with a big-picture view of the cosmos like none before.

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Conflicting distance measurements have added to the uncertainty. One data source places one object at 6,500 light years away, ...

The discovery of Inkathazo is part of a larger effort to explore the southern sky, an area relatively unstudied for giant radio galaxies. It is the third GRG found in a small region, suggesting that ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...