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Milky Way collided with ‘sausage’ galaxy roughly eight billion years ago
Astronomers propose that between eight and 10 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy collided with the Milky Way and completely reshaped the galaxy
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How many arms does the Milky Way have?
Gemma Lavender spirals her way into this question for us.
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Astronomers find ‘space grease’ in Milky Way
“It’s not the kind of thing you’d want to spread on a slice of toast!”
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Scientists successfully test Einstein’s general relativity outside the Milky Way
By comparing the mass of ESO 325-G004 with the curvature of space around it, the astronomers found that gravity on these astronomical length-scales behaves as predicted by general relativity
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Apart from Andromeda, are any other galaxies moving towards us?
Is our Milky Way destined to collide with any other galaxies?
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Are all the constellations made of stars in our own galaxy?
Where are the stars in various constellations located?
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Early galaxies found to rotate like whirlpools
The gas within the galactic structures, which were formed less then a billion years after the Big Bang, have been discovered to have a ‘swirling’ behaviour
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Record-breaking star measurement puts dark matter on trial
The results provide more valuable evidence in support of our current model of the universe
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Astronomers uncover more about the making of baby stars
By studying distant galaxies, astronomers could reveal the large amounts of atomic hydrogen and how it affects star formation
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Record-breaking, low-oxygen galaxy provides snapshot into early universe
Dwarf galaxy J0811+4730 may serve well as a proxy for better understanding the developing chemistry of the young cosmos
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Milky Way ‘not a typical galaxy’, new study finds
The research has thrown a wrench into what we know about how galaxies form
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Astronomers find never-before-seen regions of star formation in our galaxy
A research team has discovered new evidence of stars forming in the Milky Way
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ESA spacecraft observes stars ‘running away’ from our galaxy
Using Gaia’s artificial brain, the paths of six hypervelocity stars have been deduced
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Hubble discovers details about black hole’s last meal
NASA’s space telescope has found that the black hole ate its last big meal about 6 million years ago
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Tail of stray black hole found hiding in the Milky Way
The new finding marks the beginning of the search for quiet black holes
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Stars in Milky Way’s halo found to travel in groups
The finding was made after recent analysis of data for millions of stars from the Gaia space mission
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Red ‘Santa Claus’ nebula lights up the Milky Way
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured two festive-looking nebulae brightening up our galaxy