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Scientists suspect lightweight dark matter might ionize hydrogen in the Milky Way’s core. This could also explain the 511-keV ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Researchers have identified a galaxy that existed when the universe was less than 300 million years old. This galaxy, known ...

The burst's host galaxy is more than halfway across the observable universe and up to 100 times fainter than other host ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...

A nearby galaxy is ablaze with new stars in a dazzling new image from the James Webb Space Telescope. Located 45 million ...

Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...

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