One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
Astronomers create first 3D map of a hellish alien planet's atmosphere
Located around 900 light-years away in the Puppis constellation, Tylos orbits its parent star at an absurdly close distance, ...
Scientists find star-nibbling black holes are bombarding Earth with cosmic rays
Research has found black holes which 'nibble' on stars are contributing more than previously thought to the bombardment of ...
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Runaway star may be dragging a planet along with it
Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...
Runaway planet found orbiting ultra-fast star for first time – it’s flying through Milky Way 4X faster than lightning
ASTRONOMERS may have just found the fastest exoplanet system in the galaxy – a super-Neptune world orbiting a hypervelocity ...
Astronomers Spot a High-Speed Star That May Carry a Planet With It
A fast-moving star, possibly with an exoplanet, has been detected in the Milky Way, challenging current astrophysical models.
Astronomy field in turmoil: most distant spiral galaxy ever discovered
It is clear that human beings, throughout history, have always had a constant curiosity to discover everything that happens ...
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First Ever Planet Orbiting a Hypervelocity Star Found in Our Galaxy
How fast can solar systems orbit our Milky Way Galaxy? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an internation | Space ...
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2 space objects are traveling so fast, they might exit the galaxy
In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar ... lie between the orbits of Venus and Earth if it were in our solar system," Sean ...