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Milky Way
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Mars: The Red Planet
Dive into Mars: The Red Planet's surface, its potential for life, and key discoveries. Dive into landmark missions and planetary comparisons.
Planet Earth: Our Home Planet
Secrets of planet Earth: its protective atmosphere, vast water systems, and diverse array of life forms. It's our home planet!
Venus: Earth’s Mysterious Sister Planet
Explore the mysteries of Venus, Earth's twin, from its scorching heat and thick atmosphere to its volcanic activity and unique rotation.
Mercury: The Planet Closest to the Sun
Learn about Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun. Explore its swift orbit, extreme temperatures, and moon like planet features.
MeerKAT Explores an Unusual Object That Might Be a Black Hole or a Neutron Star
Astronomers from around the world have discovered a novel and unidentified object within the Milky Way. This celestial entity surpasses the mass of the heaviest known neutron stars while simultaneously being lighter than the lightest known black holes.
Tracing Orphaned Stars Back to Their Milky Way Origins with ‘Stellar Paternity Tests’
In the tumultuous realms of open star clusters, the potent gravitational exchanges among celestial bodies can propel individual stars to extraordinary distances, extending beyond the confines of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Pioneering research has recently unveiled a mapping of these stars situated outside the galactic disk, connecting them to their clusters of origin. This breakthrough stems from fresh data provided by the European Space Agency's Gaia Mission.
NASA’s Roman Mission: Investigating the Twinkling Lights of the Milky Way
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a project by NASA, is poised to offer an unprecedented glimpse deep into the core of our Milky Way galaxy. This mission will systematically observe hundreds of millions of stars, scrutinizing subtle fluctuations that may reveal the existence of planets, distant stars, enigmatic icy objects on the fringes of our solar system, solitary black holes, and an array of celestial phenomena. In its pursuit, the Roman Space Telescope is expected to establish a new record for the most distant exoplanet ever detected, opening a window to an entirely distinct cosmic neighborhood that may harbor worlds vastly different from the over 5,500 exoplanets known to us at present.
Milky Way-Like Galaxies Found in Early Universe
Recent research suggests that galaxies from the early Universe resemble our Milky Way more closely than previously believed, challenging the conventional understanding of how scientists perceive the formation of structures in the cosmos.
From The Infinity Gauntlet to Across to the Spider-Verse: These Six Galaxies Were Never Supposed to Exist
No one was expecting them. They weren't supposed to be there. And now no one can explain how they were formed.