Milky Way’s Youngest Pulsar Confirmed
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Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have confirmed that a supernova remnant called Kes 75 contains the youngest known pulsar in our Milky Way Galaxy. After...
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have confirmed that a supernova remnant called Kes 75 contains the youngest known pulsar in our Milky Way Galaxy. After some massive stars run out of nuclear fuel, then collapse and explode as supernovas,...
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Image: Cloudlets swarm around our local supermassive black hole
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This image from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) shows the area surrounding Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole that lurks at the centre of the Milky Way—highlighted here with...
This image from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) shows the area surrounding Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole that lurks at the centre of the Milky Way—highlighted here with a small circle. New research has revealed exciting evidence of...
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Russian physicists postulate the existence of dark matter-based Bose stars
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Researchers developed a mathematical model describing motion of dark matter particles inside the smallest galaxy halos. They observed that over time, dark matter may form spherical droplets of...
Researchers developed a mathematical model describing motion of dark matter particles inside the smallest galaxy halos. They observed that over time, dark matter may form spherical droplets of quantum condensate. Previously, this was considered impossible, as fluctuations of the gravity...
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Russian Physicists Observe Dark Matter Forming Droplets
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Researchers developed a mathematical model describing motion of dark matter particles inside the smallest galaxy halos. They observed that over time, the...
Researchers developed a mathematical model describing motion of dark matter particles inside the smallest galaxy halos. They observed that over time, the dark matter may form spherical droplets of quantum condensate. Previously this was considered impossible, as fluctuations of the...
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Hubble Snaps Beautiful Image of NGC 5033
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a vivid image of the unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 5033. NGC 5033 is located about...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a vivid image of the unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 5033. NGC 5033 is located about 43 million light-years from Earth toward the constellation of Canes Venatici. The galaxy’s spiral arms span over 100,000...
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Kes 75—Milky Way's youngest pulsar exposes secrets of star's demise
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Scientists have confirmed the identity of the youngest known pulsar in the Milky Way galaxy using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This result could provide astronomers new...
Scientists have confirmed the identity of the youngest known pulsar in the Milky Way galaxy using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This result could provide astronomers new information about how some stars end their lives.
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Kes 75: Milky Way's Youngest Pulsar Exposes Secrets of Star's Demise
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Scientists have confirmed the identity of the youngest known pulsar in the Milky Way...
Scientists have confirmed the identity of the youngest known pulsar in the Milky Way galaxy using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This result could provide astronomers new information about how some stars end their lives. After some massive stars...
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New Book Showcases the Incredible Women of 'Star Wars'
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Last Thursday (Oct. 4) at Comic Con, author Amy Ratcliffe discussed her new book "Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy" at a panel moderated by voice actor Ashley Eckstein.
Last Thursday (Oct. 4) at Comic Con, author Amy Ratcliffe discussed her new book "Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy" at a panel moderated by voice actor Ashley Eckstein.
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Surprise Finding: Discovering a Previously Unknown Role for a Source of Magnetic Fields
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Magnetic forces ripple throughout the universe, from the fields surrounding...
Magnetic forces ripple throughout the universe, from the fields surrounding planets to the gasses filling galaxies, and can be launched by a phenomenon called the Biermann battery effect. Now scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics...
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Ultraviolet Superflares May Threaten Exoplanet Habitability near Young Red Dwarfs
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Stellar superflares from young red dwarfs may make conditions uninhabitable on fledgling planets, according to the...
Stellar superflares from young red dwarfs may make conditions uninhabitable on fledgling planets, according to the new results of the Habitable Zones and M dwarf Activity across Time (HAZMAT) survey. About 70% of the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy...
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Discovering a previously unknown role for a source of magnetic fields
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Magnetic forces ripple throughout the universe, from the fields surrounding planets to the gasses filling galaxies, and can be launched by a phenomenon called the Biermann...
Magnetic forces ripple throughout the universe, from the fields surrounding planets to the gasses filling galaxies, and can be launched by a phenomenon called the Biermann battery effect. Now scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics...
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Chandra and ALMA measure speed of sloshing gas in galaxy cluster
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Almost all galaxy clusters experience mergers. While a merger takes place, a specific spiral pattern can often be observed in X-ray images. Such a spiral feature...
Almost all galaxy clusters experience mergers. While a merger takes place, a specific spiral pattern can often be observed in X-ray images. Such a spiral feature is due to the motion of the sloshing gas induced by a merger. Observing...
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Astronomers Find a Cosmic Titan in the Early Universe
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An international team of astronomers has discovered a titanic structure in the early universe, just 2 billion years...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a titanic structure in the early universe, just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. This galaxy proto-supercluster, nicknamed Hyperion, is the largest and most massive structure yet found at such a remote...
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Moon Helps Reveal Secrets of the Universe
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The Moon may be the key to unlocking how the first stars and galaxies shaped the early Universe. A team of astronomers...
The Moon may be the key to unlocking how the first stars and galaxies shaped the early Universe. A team of astronomers led by Dr Benjamin McKinley at Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR)...
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Blazar's brightness cycle confirmed by NASA's Fermi mission
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A two-year cycle in the gamma-ray brightness of a blazar, a galaxy powered by a supermassive black hole, has been confirmed by 10 years of observations from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope....
A two-year cycle in the gamma-ray brightness of a blazar, a galaxy powered by a supermassive black hole, has been confirmed by 10 years of observations from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The findings were announced today at the Eighth...
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VIDEO: 5,000 robots merge to map the universe in 3-D
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How do you create the largest 3-D map of the universe? It's as easy as teaching 5,000 robots how to "dance." DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, is...
How do you create the largest 3-D map of the universe? It's as easy as teaching 5,000 robots how to "dance." DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, is an experiment that will target millions of distant galaxies by automatically swiveling...
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Astronomers Find Proto-Supercluster of Galaxies in Early Universe
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Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have spotted a gigantic galaxy proto-supercluster in the early Universe, just 2.3 billion years...
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have spotted a gigantic galaxy proto-supercluster in the early Universe, just 2.3 billion years after the Big Bang. Nicknamed Hyperion, the newly-discovered proto-supercluster is the largest and most massive structure to be found so...
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Magnetic Fields may be the Key to Black Hole Activity
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Researchers using NASA’s SOFIA airborne telescope have found that magnetic fields are trapping the material that...
Researchers using NASA’s SOFIA airborne telescope have found that magnetic fields are trapping the material that feeds the supermassive black hole in the galaxy Cygnus A. Collimated jets provide astronomers with some of the most powerful evidence that a supermassive...
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Missing Gamma-ray Blobs Shed New Light on Dark Matter, Cosmic Magnetism
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When astrophysicists look at the gamma-ray glow from a galaxy outside our own, all...
When astrophysicists look at the gamma-ray glow from a galaxy outside our own, all they typically see is a small spot because the galaxy is extremely far away. So, when a galaxy appears as an extended blob, something extraordinary must...
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Scientists in Chile unveil 'A Cosmic Titan' cluster of galaxies
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Astronomers peering billions of light years into space have detected the largest, most extensive collection of...
Astronomers peering billions of light years into space have detected the largest, most extensive collection of galaxies ever registered in the early days of the universe, a "proto-supercluster" they nicknamed Hyperion after a titan from Greek mythology.
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Astronomers find a cosmic Titan in the early universe
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Astronomers have discovered a titanic structure in the early universe, just two billion years after the Big Bang. This galaxy proto-supercluster, nicknamed Hyperion, is the largest and most massive structure...
Astronomers have discovered a titanic structure in the early universe, just two billion years after the Big Bang. This galaxy proto-supercluster, nicknamed Hyperion, is the largest and most massive structure yet found at such a remote time and distance.
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Astronomers find a cosmic Titan in the early universe
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An international team of astronomers has discovered a titanic structure in the early Universe, just two billion years after the Big Bang. This galaxy proto-supercluster, nicknamed Hyperion, is the largest...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a titanic structure in the early Universe, just two billion years after the Big Bang. This galaxy proto-supercluster, nicknamed Hyperion, is the largest and most massive structure yet found at such a remote...
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The Moon helps reveal secrets of the universe
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The Moon may be the key to unlocking how the first stars and galaxies shaped the early universe.
The Moon may be the key to unlocking how the first stars and galaxies shaped the early universe.
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Researchers investigate the peculiar radio source IC 1531
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An international team of researchers has investigated a peculiar extragalactic radio source known as IC 1531. The new study analyzes the nature of IC 1531's high-energy emission, suggesting that the source is...
An international team of researchers has investigated a peculiar extragalactic radio source known as IC 1531. The new study analyzes the nature of IC 1531's high-energy emission, suggesting that the source is a radio galaxy. The findings are presented in...
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Award-winning algorithm takes search for habitable planets to the next level
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An international team of scientists, including KAUST high performance computing experts and astronomers from the Paris Observatory and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), in...
An international team of scientists, including KAUST high performance computing experts and astronomers from the Paris Observatory and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), in collaboration with NVIDIA, is taking the search for habitable planets and observation of first...
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Magnetic fields may be the key to black hole activity
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Collimated jets provide astronomers with some of the most powerful evidence that a supermassive black hole lurks in the heart of most galaxies. Some of these black holes...
Collimated jets provide astronomers with some of the most powerful evidence that a supermassive black hole lurks in the heart of most galaxies. Some of these black holes appear to be active, gobbling up material from their surroundings and launching...
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Supermassive black holes and supercomputers
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The universe's deep past is beyond the reach of even the mighty Hubble Space Telescope. But a new review explains how creation of the first stars and galaxies is nevertheless being mapped in detail, with the aid of...
The universe's deep past is beyond the reach of even the mighty Hubble Space Telescope. But a new review explains how creation of the first stars and galaxies is nevertheless being mapped in detail, with the aid of computer simulations...
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Missing gamma-ray blobs shed new light on dark matter, cosmic magnetism
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When astrophysicists look at the gamma-ray glow from a galaxy outside our own, all they typically see is a small spot because the galaxy is extremely...
When astrophysicists look at the gamma-ray glow from a galaxy outside our own, all they typically see is a small spot because the galaxy is extremely far away. So, when a galaxy appears as an extended blob, something extraordinary must...
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NASA wants to send humans to Venus – here's why that's a brilliant idea
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Popular science fiction of the early 20th century depicted Venus as some kind of wonderland of pleasantly warm temperatures, forests,...
Popular science fiction of the early 20th century depicted Venus as some kind of wonderland of pleasantly warm temperatures, forests, swamps and even dinosaurs. In 1950, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Natural History Museum were soliciting reservations for the...
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Computer Simulation Sheds Light on Supermassive Black Hole Mergers
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For the first time, a new computer simulation that incorporates the physical effects of Einstein’s general theory of...
For the first time, a new computer simulation that incorporates the physical effects of Einstein’s general theory of relativity shows that gas in supermassive binary black hole systems approaching merger will glow predominantly in UV and X-ray light. An analysis...
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Hubble Finds Strong-Lensing Galaxy Cluster
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A stunning new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the effects of gravitational lensing caused by SDSS J0952+3434, a very massive group of galaxies...
A stunning new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the effects of gravitational lensing caused by SDSS J0952+3434, a very massive group of galaxies located approximately 4 billion light-years away in the constellation Leo Minor. Galaxy clusters contain...
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The Milky Way could be spreading life from star to star
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For almost two centuries, scientists have theorized that life may be distributed throughout the universe by meteoroids, asteroids, planetoids, and other astronomical objects. This theory, known...
For almost two centuries, scientists have theorized that life may be distributed throughout the universe by meteoroids, asteroids, planetoids, and other astronomical objects. This theory, known as Panspermia, is based on the idea that microorganisms and the chemical precursors of...
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What does a black hole look like?
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At the center of our galaxy lies a swirling, energy-spewing supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* or Sgr A*, for short. For billions of years, surrounding gas and dust have been falling into it....
At the center of our galaxy lies a swirling, energy-spewing supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* or Sgr A*, for short. For billions of years, surrounding gas and dust have been falling into it. Every 10,000 years or so, it...
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Milky Way Meets Zodiacal Light Over ALMA Observatory (Photo)
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This scene shows the magnificent presence of the Milky Way galaxy, full of nebulous clouds of interstellar gas and dust and sparkling star clusters shining bright in one of the...
This scene shows the magnificent presence of the Milky Way galaxy, full of nebulous clouds of interstellar gas and dust and sparkling star clusters shining bright in one of the most pristine dark-sky sites in the world.
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Active galactic nuclei and star formation
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Most galaxies host a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at their nucleus. (A supermassive black hole is one whose mass exceeds a million solar-masses.) A key unresolved issue in galaxy formation and evolution is the role these...
Most galaxies host a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at their nucleus. (A supermassive black hole is one whose mass exceeds a million solar-masses.) A key unresolved issue in galaxy formation and evolution is the role these SMBHs play in shaping...
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Virgin Galactic preparing for next phase of SpaceShipTwo test flight program
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Virgin Galactic’s chief executive says the company is approaching the “next phase” of the...
Virgin Galactic’s chief executive says the company is approaching the “next phase” of the flight test program for the company’s SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle as the company’s founder predicts the company reaching space in “weeks.” SpaceNews.com
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Sextans: The smallest cannibal galaxy discovered until now
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A team at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has discovered a new case of galactic cannibalism in the neighbourhood of the Milky Way, which has caused the merging of two...
A team at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has discovered a new case of galactic cannibalism in the neighbourhood of the Milky Way, which has caused the merging of two galaxies on the smallest scale so far known.
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Galaxy NGC 3256 contains substantial amounts of dark matter, study suggests
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A new research recently carried out by astronomers suggests that the galaxy NGC 3256 has substantial amounts of dark matter in its central region. The finding,...
A new research recently carried out by astronomers suggests that the galaxy NGC 3256 has substantial amounts of dark matter in its central region. The finding, presented in a paper published October 2 on arXiv.org, might pose a challenge to...
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Super-Fast Stars in the Milky Way May Be Visitors from Beyond
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A team of astronomers noticed something interesting when they were sifting through the recently published second data release from the Gaia mission.
A team of astronomers noticed something interesting when they were sifting through the recently published second data release from the Gaia mission.
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Researchers Solve Mystery at the Center of the Milky Way
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Astronomers from Lund University in Sweden have now found the explanation to a recent mystery at...
Astronomers from Lund University in Sweden have now found the explanation to a recent mystery at the center of the Milky Way galaxy: the high levels of scandium discovered last spring near the galaxy’s giant black hole were in fact...
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Galactic Archaeology
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An international team of researchers, including David S. Aguado, Jonay González and Carlos Allende Prieto of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has found a star with extremely low metallicity, one...
An international team of researchers, including David S. Aguado, Jonay González and Carlos Allende Prieto of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has found a star with extremely low metallicity, one of the oldest in the Milky Way, and...
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New telescope almost doubles known number of mysterious 'fast radio bursts'
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Astronomers have nearly doubled the known number of 'fast radio bursts'-- powerful flashes of radio waves from deep space. The team's discoveries include the closest and...
Astronomers have nearly doubled the known number of 'fast radio bursts'-- powerful flashes of radio waves from deep space. The team's discoveries include the closest and brightest fast radio bursts ever detected and they have proved that fast radio bursts...
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Mystery at the center of the Milky Way solved
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Astronomers have now found the explanation to a recent mystery at the center of the Milky Way galaxy: the high levels of scandium discovered last spring near the galaxy's giant...
Astronomers have now found the explanation to a recent mystery at the center of the Milky Way galaxy: the high levels of scandium discovered last spring near the galaxy's giant black hole were in fact an optical illusion.
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High levels of scandium near the galaxy's giant black hole were illusory, astronomers find
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Astronomers from Lund University in Sweden have now found the explanation to a recent mystery at the centre of the...
Astronomers from Lund University in Sweden have now found the explanation to a recent mystery at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy: the high levels of scandium discovered last spring near the galaxy's giant black hole were in fact...
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