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Unveiling the uncharted Milky Way: Completing the galactic stellar map
Our understanding of the galaxy has advanced with every leap ... originating from our position in the central plane of the Milky Way's disk. Our location limits the volume of potentially ...
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How to Read a Pulsar Map
Its aluminum cover is engraved with instructions, and a unique galactic map. Astronomer and astrophysicist ... a course to our little corner of the Milky Way. And as if this interstellar roadmap ...
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Legendary Gaia Spacecraft Maps Entire Galaxy, Promptly Retires
Image: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has completed one of its major charges: delivering a map of the Milky Way galaxy, comprised of trillions of ...
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Galactic chaos at cosmic noon may have stunted Milky Way planet formation
The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets ... them above and below that main plane. Most of the stars in the thin ...
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The best objects to view and photograph along the Milky Way
I began photographing the Milky Way around 2018 ... Hidden treasures reside along the plane of the northern galactic bulge, ranging from Scorpius to Serpens Cauda. (Serpens Cauda is a lesser ...
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Two enormous "bubbles" discovered towering above and below our Milky Way galaxy
In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...