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Milky Way's massive black hole spaghettified filament of gas

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Astronomers Find an Odd Space Cloud, Like a Galaxy Without Stars, That Could Shed Light on the Secrets of Dark Matter

Named “Cloud-9,” the discovery is a new type of celestial object known as a RELHIC, making it unlike anything scientists have ...

Do even low-mass dwarf galaxies merge? New clues from the outer stars of a Milky Way satellite

Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny ...
Space.com

Unusual 'ingredients' helped stars form in a galaxy near the Milky Way

Using JWST's Mid-Infrared Instrument, the scientists honed in on stars, all between one and eight times the mass of the sun, ...
Green Matters

Photographer Captured Milky Way Under Every Light Pollution Level — and the Results Say It All

So, he decided to take matters into his hands and capture the galaxy at every pollution level in real-life. "I photographed ...

See the Milky Way galaxy's warp in this animation

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...
Science Daily

This surprising discovery rewrites the Milky Way’s origin story

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star ...
Science Daily

JWST finds a Milky Way twin born shockingly early in the Universe

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier than astronomers believed such well-structured galaxies could form. With ...
Live Science

Unprecedented radio view of the Milky Way took over 40,000 hours to construct — Space photo of the week

We cannot see or image the entire Milky Way galaxy, because we are located inside it. From Earth, we can observe only a portion of the galaxy, and when we look up at the dark, clear night sky from a ...
Scientific American

Our Milky Way’s Warped Disk Keeps Getting Weirder

So it’s confession time: I’ve been lying to you. I’ve said on many occasions that our Milky Way galaxy has a flat disk (like in this column or this one). But it’s not really flat—not even for a ...
The New York Times

A.I. Is Making Death Threats Way More Realistic

Online harassers are generating images and sounds that simulate their victims in violent situations. By Tiffany Hsu Tiffany Hsu has written for years about benefits and abuses of generative artificial ...
Mashable

The Milky Way has never been seen quite like this before

Astronomers have created a new colorized radio view of the Milky Way's galactic plane. Credit: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research Astronomers in Australia have created the largest and ...