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 ...
Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that's twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ...
Astronomers at NASA have caught a glimpse of a star system whipping through space at an unprecedented speed. While the system ...
Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...
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A research team may have discovered a star with an exoplanet that is so fast that both will leave the Milky Way.
Astronomers may have found a star racing through our galaxy at an incredible speed—dragging a planet along with it! If ...
Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers estimate that there could be 100 million black holes ...
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