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Milky Way: Galaxy containing the Solar System
The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.

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Astronomers Think Powerful Magnetic Winds Drive Growth of Supermassive Black Holes [Video]

Astronomers Think Powerful Magnetic Winds Drive Growth of Supermassive Black Holes

Astronomers Think Powerful , Magnetic Winds Drive Growth , of Supermassive Black Holes. 'Newsweek' reports that scientists may have unraveled the mystery of how supermassive black holes are able to..

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Scientists Use 'Dyson Sphere' Signature to Search for Potential Alien Life [Video]

Scientists Use 'Dyson Sphere' Signature to Search for Potential Alien Life

Scientists Use 'Dyson Sphere' , Signature to Search for , Potential Alien Life. Decades ago, physicist Freeman Dyson theorized that a shell made of solar panels that surrounds a star would be the..

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Gaia Telescope Reveals Precise Date of the Milky Way's Last Act of Galactic Cannibalism [Video]

Gaia Telescope Reveals Precise Date of the Milky Way's Last Act of Galactic Cannibalism

Gaia Telescope Reveals Precise , Date of the Milky Way's Last , Act of Galactic Cannibalism. Space.com reports that the latest findings from the Gaia space telescope suggest that our Milky Way Galaxy..

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Galactic marvel: Nasa's Hubble telescope reveals majestic spiral wonder 100 million light years away

​Nasa recently shared an image on their Instagram handle, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, revealing the extended arms of a massive spiral galaxy located approximately 100 million light-years..
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Disc vital to forming stars and planets found outside Milky Way in astronomical first

Astronomers exploring a neighbouring galaxy have found evidence of a disc like those which help form stars and planets in our own Milky Way.
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Heart of Milky Way captured in 'unprecedented detail' in new images

A new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen features at the centre of the Milky Way. 
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Nasa sends Indians Diwali greetings with image of ‘celestial festival of lights’

NASA's Hubble space telescope has shared a festive image of a globular cluster resembling the lights of Diwali, the Indian festival of lights. The cluster, known as Liller 1, is located 30,000..
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Astronomers solve mystery about quasars - and the likely future of the Milky Way

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Astronomers have solved the mystery of how quasars - the brightest and most powerful objects in the universe - are ignited.
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Mmmm, cosmic chocolate pralines: Scientists reveal inner structure of neutron stars

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Supermassive Black Hole At Center of Galaxy Captured in Photo

This is incredible ... a black hole smack in the middle of our Milky Way galaxy that is 4.3 MILLION times the mass of the sun!!! The image was captured by The Event Horizon Telescope Group. Now get..
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First image of massive black hole at centre of Milky Way galaxy revealed

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Deepest ever images of Milky Way show stars moving around supermassive black hole

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Scientists have shared the deepest and sharpest ever images of the region around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, helping reveal its true mass and location.
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Sen. Warren Says Bezos Should Pay Taxes Before Space Business Park

Jeff Bezos wants to get commerce going in the Milky Way -- something he's more than welcome to do, just so long as he pays Earthling taxes beforehand ... so says Sen. Elizabeth Warren. We got the U.S...
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NASA telescope discovers first possible planet outside of Milky Way galaxy

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