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How many times has the sun traveled around the Milky Way?

Our solar system has been orbiting the Milky Way's black hole heart for 4.6 billion years. But it is hard to pin down exactly how many trips around the galaxy our sun has made during that time.

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Astro and space photographer Jen Rogers shares shows us what's in her kit bag

Jen has a passion for the outdoors and takes her camera kit with her on adventures to take incredible astro photographs

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1st evidence of nuclear fission in stars hints at elements 'never produced on Earth'

An analysis of 42 ancient stars in the Milky Way reveals the first hints of nuclear fission in the cosmos, hinting at the existence of elements far heavier than anything found naturally on Earth.

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Astronomers discover 25 'stripped stars' that may be a missing link in supernova science

The discovery of stars with their outer layers of hydrogen stripped by companions fills a glaring hole in our understanding of supernovas and binary systems with colliding neutron stars.

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Intergalactic 'stream of stars' 10 times longer than the Milky Way is the 1st of its kind ever spotted

While hunting for dark matter, astronomers accidentally discovered the first known stellar stream stretching between galaxies. The trail of stars is also the longest ever seen.

Space

The Webb Telescope Went On A Hunt For Baby Stars But Accidentally Discovered Something Weirder

Astronomers looked into a relatively dark patch of the Milky Way center looking for traces of newly forming stars but found something else entirely.

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Space photo of the week: 'Magical' Milky Way cuts through the Valley of the Moon in Chile's Atacama Desert

Astrophotographer Petr Horálek shot this image of the Milky Way dazzling above strange geological formations in the desert close to the ALMA radio telescope array in Chile.

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Hubble Just Spotted An Ancient Globular Cluster ‘Stuffed Full of Stars’

A new Hubble Space Telescope image shows an ancient gathering of stars beyond the Milky Way.

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An 'extragalactic' intruder may lurk among stars orbiting the Milky Way's black hole

Potentially, the 1st "extragalactic" star found at the heart of our galaxy S0–6 appears to have taken a 10 billion-year-long journey to reach the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole.

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James Webb telescope discovers dark secret of 'The Brick,' a gas cloud flipping assumptions about how stars are born

Peering deep into 'The Brick,' a dark, chaotic gas cloud at the heart of the Milky Way, the James Webb Space Telescope uncovered secrets that could shake up theories of star formation.

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Could a 'supervoid' solve an unrelenting debate over the universe's expansion rate?

Measurements of how fast the universe is expanding differ depending on how you measure the rate. Could a huge under-density of galaxies, including the Milky Way, be to blame?

Space

Intergalactic 'stream of stars' 10 times longer than the Milky Way is the 1st of its kind ever spotted

While hunting for dark matter, astronomers accidentally discovered the first known stellar stream stretching between galaxies. The trail of stars is also the longest ever seen.

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Mysterious Region At Center Of Milky Way Could Hold Secrets Of Universe

Research into a mysterious dark region at the center of the Milky Way could provide answers as to how our universe was formed

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A mysterious river of gas flowing into the Milky Way has stars inside after all

For the first time since its discovery, scientists have found stars within the Magellanic Stream, a mighty river of hydrogen gas emanating from two small galaxies in the outskirts of the Milky Way.

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James Webb telescope reveals 'nursery' of 500,000 stars in the chaotic heart of the Milky Way

A dazzling new James Webb telescope image of the region near the Milky Way's central black hole reveals thousands of newborn stars among the "most extreme cosmic environment" in the galaxy.

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The Milky Way lights up the 'Valley of the moon' in magical new night sky photo

The European Southern Observatory shared a mesmerizing new photo of the Milky Way shining above Valle de la Luna, meaning "Valley of the Moon," in Chile's Atacama Desert.

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In a first, a newborn star's spinning disk is seen in another galaxy

Researchers said they have spotted such a disk around a star larger and more luminous than the sun residing in one of our nearest neighbouring galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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Scientists just found a planet-forming disk beyond our Milky Way for the 1st time — yes, they're thrilled

Astronomers have spotted an accretion disk feeding matter to a young star and helping it grow in a galaxy outside the Milky Way for the first time.

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Strange 'blob' circling Milky Way's central black hole is shooting powerful radiation at Earth every 76 minutes

Regular high-energy pulses of gamma-ray radiation emerging from around the Milky Way's central black hole may be coming from a blob of matter whipping around at 30% the speed of light.

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Spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are surprisingly rare. Astronomers may finally know why.

The Supergalactic Plane we are located in doesn't have many spiral galaxies like the Milky Way. Astronomers think they finally know why galaxies like ours are so rare.

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New Simulation Reveals How the Milky Way Has Long Avoided A Cosmic Crash

The Milky Way is a bit of an oddity, but it turns out we're just really good at social distancing.

Space

The Milky Way's stunning spiral structure appears to be an anomaly. But why?

A new supercomputer simulation reveals why spiral galaxies like our Milky Way are strikingly scarce in our pocket of the universe.

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Webb Telescope Uncovers Startling Phenomenon Growing Inside The Milky Way

NASA published a new image of the Milky Way's tumultuous heart, where there's room for big stars to form, and for a monster black hole to rip everything apart.

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James Webb reveals new Milky Way details

The famous new space telescope captured the center of the Milky Way in a new light

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James Webb Space Telescope sees major star factory near the Milky Way's black hole (image)

The JWST has imaged an intense region of star-formation near the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, making findings that could be key to understanding the earliest galaxies.

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