Astronomy on MSN15h
JWST just found a black hole starving its host galaxy to death
New research reveals how supermassive black holes halt star formation, shedding light on galaxy evolution in the early ...
A spider stellar engine could move binary stars halfway across a galaxy
Eventually, every stellar civilization will have to migrate to a different star. The habitable zone around all stars changes ...
Space on MSN10d
Astronomers spot unusually synchronized star formation in ancient galaxy for 1st time
Astronomers have spotted thousands of young stars huddled around the center of an ancient galaxy, all of which formed nearly ...
Webb telescope scientists forced to reckon with enormous galaxy outliers
The galaxies, each as vast as the Milky Way, are baffling because most scientific models for galaxy evolution suggest ...
Hubble Captures a Galaxy with Many Lights
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...
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The Most Distant Stars In Our Galaxy Are Halfway To Andromeda, Say Scientists
Also called M31—and our closest giant neighboring galaxy at just 2.5 million light years away—Andromeda is home to at least a trillion stars. Like the Milky Way, it’s a spiral galaxy ...
IFLScience on MSN18h
The LMC Just Made A Close Approach To Our Galaxy, And Hubble Saw The Aftermath
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a look at the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy, being stripped of its ...
Hubble sees aftermath of galaxy's scrape with Milky Way
A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...