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There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and it's not alone. There is also likely a forest of binary ...
A mysterious cluster of 60 stars may be just another Milky Way star cluster, or it may be one of the smallest galaxies ever ...
Sagittarius C, a turbulent region near the Milky Way’s center, is glowing with hot plasma and threaded by magnetic fields, ...
How do you distinguish a galaxy from a mere cluster of stars? That’s easy, right? A galaxy is a large collection of millions ...
Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way ...
Spotted thanks to a fleeting light distortion in 2011, a mysterious duo — a tiny star and its hefty companion — has turned ...
"Ophion is filled with stars that are set to rush out across the galaxy in a totally haphazard, uncoordinated way, which is ...
An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...
Initially, the astronomer who first made note of this fuzzy-looking glowing cluster thought it might be a nebula. But it’s ...
In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...
"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...
The Milky Way is set to be visible from the UAE for five months, meaning there's no excuse not to catch a glimpse at the ...