Starlust on MSN
Andromeda is headed toward the Milky Way, while other galaxies are moving away—and now we know why
A sheet of dark matter lying beyond the boundary of the Local Group is responsible for this.
Astronomers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville may have found the closest evidence yet of a hidden clump of dark matter near the Sun. Led by astrophysicist Sukanya Chakrabarti, the research ...
Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN
Most nearby galaxies drift away Andromeda heads inward because our neighborhood is a dark-matter sheet
The suburbia of the Milky Way does not form a ball of matter with the center at its center. Rather, the mass around it is arranged in a wide, flattened form, which alters the sense of gravity back ...
Two ways of measuring how fast the universe is expanding disagree, a puzzle known as the Hubble tension. Tiny magnetic fields from the Big Bang may offer a solution.
What: New analyses using early observations from the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission examine how galaxy mergers trigger active galactic nuclei (AGN), luminou ...
Hubble captures a dazzling stellar nursery where newborn stars light up and carve their way through glowing clouds in a ...
Models, by definition, are approximations: useful, informative, and inevitably incomplete, because they are the only way to ...
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