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Hubble’s 31st Anniversary: the Telescope Captures Footage of One of the Brightest Stars on the Edge of Destruction

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into Earth’s lower orbit in 1990, and it had some impressive achievements while aimed towards the depths of the Universe: it discovered two moons of Pluto (Hydra and Nix), it helped pin down the…

April 24, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

Scientists Discovered the Best Time and Place for Life to Emerge in the Milky Way

People often believe that our planet represents the best place from the Universe, despite its countless political and economic issues. But a new study claims otherwise, and it adds new support to the idea that we’re all here and at…

March 8, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

Galactic Collision Possibly Caused Tremendous Outcome for the Milky Way

The general perception about our Milky Way galaxy is that it resembles a flat disc full of billions of stars including our Sun. But as things usually go in astronomy, surprises also occur in this case. Phys.org writes that the Milky…

February 7, 2021 · by Anna Daniels · 0

Earth Got Closer to The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole – Are We in Danger?

Earth flies along with the entire Solar System in a straight line through space, and there’s no such thing as a pitstop in this mysterious cosmic journey. The supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A is located at the center…

November 27, 2020 · by Anna Daniels · 0

Milky Way Galaxy Ejects Newborn Stars Into Its Outer Halo

Sijie Yu, a physicist from UC Irvine, has recently published a study in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The review resumes on the work she and her scientific team has done in investigating Milky Way galaxy’s behavior.…

May 5, 2020 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Computer Simulations Revealed That Milky Way Catapults Stars in the Outer Halo

The researchers have proven that the clusters of supernovas are responsible for the creation of scattered stars, which represent suns that orbit in an unconventional way in the outer stellar halos of the Milky Way galaxy. Therefore, this discovery is…

April 21, 2020 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0