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Astronomers spot twinkling heart of milky way using ALMA
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 23 (ANI): Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found quasi-periodic flickers in millimeter-waves from the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius (Sgr) A*.
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Milky Way could be catapulting stars into its outer halo, say astronomers
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
California [USA], April 20 (ANI): Though mighty, the Milky Way and galaxies of similar mass are not without scars chronicling turbulent histories.
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Milky Way could be catapulting stars into its outer halo
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
California [USA], April 20 (ANI): Astronomers have shown that clusters of supernovas can cause the birth of scattered, eccentrically orbiting suns in outer stellar halos of Milky Way, upending commonly held notions of how star systems have formed and evolved over billions of years.
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Star dancing around supermassive black hole confirms Einstein's theory
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 16 (ANI): A star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way moves just as predicted by physicist Albert Einstein Einstein over 100 years ago, astronomers have found.
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Milky Way's warp caused by galactic collision, Gaia suggests
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 3 (ANI): Astronomers have pondered for years why our galaxy, the Milky Way, is warped.
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Astronomers detect biggest explosion after Big Bang
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Perth [Australia], Feb 28 (ANI): The biggest explosion in the universe after the Big Bang has been discovered by scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster.
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Hot gas feeds formation of material in spiral arms of Milky Way Galaxy
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Heidelberg [Germany], Jan 14 (ANI): A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy has recently gained insights about the origin of material present in the spiral arms of Milky Way Galaxy.
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Oldest solid meteorite material found in Australia
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 14 (ANI): A meteorite that fell in Australia back in 1999 has the oldest solid meteorite material found on Earth till date, proved a recent study.
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Scientists date merger of Milky Way with dwarf galaxy
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 14 (ANI): The dwarf galaxy Gaia-Enceladus collided with the Milky Way probably approximately 11.5 billion years ago. The Milky Way has encountered several other galaxies in its 13.5 billion-year history. One of them is the dwarf galaxy Gaia-Enceladus. To understand
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Study reveals some gnome galaxies host massive blackholes
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Jan 11 (ANI): A new hint towards finding out the early history of galaxy formation comes up as the astronomers discover 13 new black holes in some dwarf galaxies which are not more than a billion light-years away from our planet.
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Map of Milky Way Galaxy reveals presence of stellar nurseries wave
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 8 (ANI): Astronomers from Harvard University have found the presence of a wave-shaped gaseous structure named 'Radcliffe Wave' in the Milky Way Galaxy.
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Scientists spot young stars in outskirts of Milky Way Galaxy
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 8 (ANI): Scientists have spotted a flock of young stars in the outskirts of the Milky Way, which is the home to some of the oldest stars of the galaxy.
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