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If you explore the night sky it won’t be long before you realise there is a lot of dust and…
The gigantic galaxies we see in the Universe today, including our own Milky Way galaxy, started out far smaller. Mergers…
Science really does keep you on your toes. First there was matter and then there were galaxies. Then those galaxies…
In 1950, while sitting down to lunch with colleagues at the Los Alamos Laboratory, famed physicist and nuclear scientist Enrico…
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The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, maybe even a grand design spiral galaxy. We can't be sure from…
Thanks to its infrared capabilities, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) allows astronomers to peer through the gas and dust…
The Milky Way can't hold onto all of its stars. Some of them get ejected into intergalactic space and spend…
The ESA's Gaia mission is releasing a new tranche of astronomical data. The mission has released three regular, massive hauls…