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“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...
A recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society reveals the discovery of the most distant and most pristine fossil galaxy ever found, KiDS J0842+0059, located about 3 ...
Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope spotted surprisingly cold, dense hydrogen clouds embedded inside the Milky Way’s ...
Deep within the Milky Way’s core, researchers have uncovered cold gas clouds racing through a superheated galactic wind.
Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...
Unusually fast-moving gas clouds near a nearby galaxy suggest they may have come from outside the galaxy. Scientists have ...
By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...
Galaxies have an overall internal motion called disk velocity. It’s how gas, dust, and stars move around the galactic center.
When it comes to star formation, not all galaxies are the same. Some are quenched, meaning they've depleted their star ...