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It’s like plunging under the North Pole: my mind-stretching ice dive in the French Alps

Move over wild swimming … ice diving in a frozen mountain lake and camping under the Milky Way connects you with nature at its most raw and magical

The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2025

One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his colleagues on his behalf reported that the Andromeda nebula, also called M31, was nearly a million light…

The Conversation · Jan 24, 2025

'Herculean' 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows our closest galactic neighbor like never before — and took more than a decade to create

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars.

LiveScience · Jan 21, 2025

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100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone

A century ago, humans didn't know other galaxies existed. Here's how Edwin Hubble changed that view.

Space · Jan 17, 2025

Goodnight, Gaia! ESA spacecraft shuts down after 12 years of Milky Way mapping

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 years of mapping the Milky Way.

Space · Jan 15, 2025

Dark matter may have caused a baffling break in this star stream

A strange break in a stream of stars in the Milky Way could be the result of dark matter, but only if the dark matter is hot and self-interacting.

Space · Jan 14, 2025

Fibre may help protect your gut from overgrowth of harmful bugs – new study

Our body isn’t just human — it’s home to trillions of microorganisms found in or on us. In fact, there are more microbes in our gut than there are stars in the Milky Way. These microbes are essential for human health, but scientists are still figuring out exactly what they…

The Conversation · Jan 10, 2025

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Most of the atoms in your body left the Milky Way on a 'cosmic conveyor belt' long before you were born, new study reveals

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky Way on a cosmic "conveyor belt," before eventually returning to our galaxy.

LiveScience · Jan 8, 2025

Building blocks of life on Earth left the Milky Way before being pulled back in

You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round trip on a cosmic conveyer belt.

Space · Jan 8, 2025

Inspiring images of stars, planets and the moon taken from around the world

Ethereal beauty captured on film

Woman & Home · Jan 8, 2025

The top 7 black hole discoveries from 2024

2024 was a big year for black hole science, and Space.com was on duty all year to bring you every major development in our understanding of the universe's most fascinating entities.

Space · Dec 30, 2024

James Webb telescope spies stunning 'Firefly Sparkle' galaxy — a baby clone of the Milky Way being 'assembled brick by brick' in the early universe

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a baby, Milky Way-like galaxy that formed more than 13 billion years ago. This "Firefly Sparkle" galaxy could reveal how our own galaxy evolved.

LiveScience · Dec 18, 2024

Astronomers’ world-first discovery: twin stars trapped in galactic black hole orbit

At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. It is roughly 27,000 light years from Earth and 23.5 million kilometres in diameter.

The Conversation · Dec 17, 2024

Rare Discovery: Twin Stars Near Milky Way's Black Hole

Discover the intriguing celestial phenomenon of twin stars orbiting near the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way, challenging scientific understanding.

Astronomers discover 1st binary stars orbiting supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way

Astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope to discover the first binary stars around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.

Digital Camera World · Dec 14, 2024

The Dark Energy Camera captures new image of one of the most prominent spiral galaxies in incredible detail

Messier 83 was discovered in 1752, but it wasn't realized that it's actually a galaxy outside the Milky Way until Edwin Hubble

Space · Dec 6, 2024

Watch the sun rise on SpaceX's Crew Dragon as the Milky Way fades into darkness in mesmerizing ISS video

A new video from the International Space Station shows SpaceX's Crew Dragon alongside the Milky Way, as the bright sun rises on the spacecraft's face.

LiveScience · Dec 3, 2024

James Webb Space Telescope smashes its own record to find the earliest galaxies that ever existed

James Webb Space Telescope image of the stellar nursery N79 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

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Space · Nov 29, 2024

Mysterious, record-breaking energy burst connected to dead star and red dwarf

Astronomers have tracked a mysterious, record-breaking blast of energy to a binary star system containing a red dwarf star and a white dwarf — solving a two-decade-long puzzle.

Space · Nov 29, 2024

Dead stars within supernova explosions could solve the dark matter mystery in 10 seconds

If astronomers could catch bursts of gamma rays from supernova explosions that create neutron stars near the Milky Way, the mystery of dark matter could be wrapped up in 10 seconds.

Space · Nov 29, 2024

James Webb Space Telescope explores monster star supercluster Westerlund 1 (image)

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken a detailed look at the Milky Way's monstrous young supercluster Westerlund 1.

LiveScience · Nov 26, 2024

'Behemoth star' captured in spectacular close-up image — and it's on the brink of exploding

Astronomers have taken a superdetailed, zoomed-in photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud's "behemoth star." The stunning image, which is the first of its kind from outside the Milky Way, shows that the giant star is right on the edge of going supernova.

International Business Times · Nov 21, 2024

The First 'Zoomed-in' Image Of A Star Outside Our Galaxy

Scientists said Thursday they have taken the first ever close-up image of a star outside of the Milky Way, capturing a blurry shot of a dying behemoth 2,000 times bigger than the Sun.

Space · Nov 21, 2024

Star imaged in detail outside the Milky Way for the 1st time (image, video)

Astronomers have captured the first zoomed-in image of a star beyond the Milky Way. The historic image reveals a dying behemoth star wrapped in a death shroud of gas about to explode.

The Conversation · Nov 20, 2024

It’s 100 years since we learned the Milky Way is not the only galaxy

On Sunday November 23 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an intriguing article, amid several large adverts for fur coats. The headline read: Finds Spiral Nebulae are Stellar Systems: “Dr Hubbell Confirms View That They Are ‘Island Universes’;…

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