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2025 Marks 100 Years Since Hubble Proved The Universe Is Vast With Galaxies Outside The Milky Way
On New Year’s Day, 1925 attendees at an astronomical conference heard one of the most influential scientific presentations of ...
Phys.org22d
Unveiling the uncharted Milky Way: Completing the galactic stellar map
While stellar surveys continue to expand in volume, our view of the Milky Way remains severely obscured, with the vast majority of stars we can study concentrated around the sun. This discrepancy ...
10 stunning images of galaxies shared by NASA
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about star formation and the galaxy’s central black hole. A festive portrait of our Milky Way ...
MIT Technology Review8d
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ready to transform our understanding of the cosmos
The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...
Astronomy on MSN6d
Newfound galaxy gives glimpse into the Milky Way’s past
The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.
Space.com21d
What is the shape of the universe?
How do astronomers describe the shape of the universe ... consider the shape of our galaxy, the Milky Way. We can infer that it is a spiral based on maps of the stars in its spiral arms, but ...
Science Daily1mon
A new galaxy, much like our own
The JWST images show a Milky Way-like galaxy in the early stages of its assembly in a universe that's only 600 million years old. "As an observational astronomer studying the structural evolution ...