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An intense star-forming region near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / S. Crowe (University of Virginia) The James Webb Space Telescope peers at some of the ...

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A new radio image of our Milky Way captures it like never before. This space image is both beautiful and contains important scientific insights. The post Magnificent Image of Milky Way’s Core ...

This is tricky, explains Iocco, because we are inside the galaxy and moving with it, and this perspective makes it difficult to determine both the distance and the circular motion of other objects.

An artist's illustration of the massive explosion that rocked the center of the Milky Way galaxy 3.5 million years ago. Our distant hominid ancestors likely would have seen the resulting flare.

Nowadays, the Milky Way is a pretty quiet galaxy, but that wasn’t always the case. ... Milky Way core flared up like a lighthouse in the recent past By Michael Irving.

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