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Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...
A startling discovery reveals ancient debris from a distant galaxy is enveloping the Milky Way. This cosmic phenomenon raises ...
At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), in collaboration with astrophysicists from the ...
Earth and its neighbors orbit the sun on a relatively flat plane. But what's below this plane, and is anythign below the ...
“Bit by bit, these tiny building blocks land on rocky planets within a newly formed solar system. If those planets happen to ...
When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...
The Ring Nebula, a well-known celestial structure in the Milky Way, presents astronomers with a mystery: a bar-shaped cloud ...
In the most extensive ultraviolet study of blue stragglers ever performed, an international research team used NASA's and ESA ...
Astronomers at W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea discovered “the clearest evidence yet that a supermassive black hole can ...
Min Read Like a recording artist who has had a long career, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has a "back catalog" of cosmic ...