When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...
Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...
Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...
Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...
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Astronomy on MSNOur near galactic neighbor might have a supermassive black holeThe Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest neighbors. It's a small, irregular galaxy that orbits the ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNAstronomers Discover Evidence of a Stealthy Supermassive Black Hole Hiding Right ‘Under Our Noses’The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest it might have been holding a ...
Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...
CENDES: So, Gaia is a European Space Agency probe that ... but this is really still very much in our galactic neighborhood. The Milky Way for scale is about 100,000 light years from one end ...
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ZME Science on MSNThe Solar System Passed Through a Massive Cosmic Wave Millions of Years Ago — And This May Have Cooled EarthThe Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...
Researchers have revealed the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky Way Galaxy ...
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