The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already uncovered two previously unknown companions of the Milky Way using preliminary observations covering just 7% of the night sky. The discoveries include an ...
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How the Milky Way will merge with Andromeda
The video explains a simulated future merger between the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy. It covers how the encounter ...
There’s a star in our night sky that looks a little ill. Or maybe haunted. Or both. Don’t worry, though — it’s neither of those things. But it does have scientists excited. For the first time, ...
Why does anything rotate at all in space? To answer this question, we first need to understand how objects spin. Spinning has ...
Astronomers have determined that VVV CL001, a metal-poor globular cluster near the center of the Milky Way, is about 13.4 ...
Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond.
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