NASA SPHEREx Telescope Is Launched to Study Universe's Origins
The U.S. space agency's megaphone-shaped SPHEREx - short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...
Hidden tunnel in space could connect our solar system with other distant worlds
The entire solar system, ours at least, sits inside a pocket of low density called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This cavity in space is 1,000 light-years across, at least, and tips the thermometer at ...
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NASA supercomputer finds Milky Way-like spiral at solar system’s edge
NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – ​​a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy ...
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Our solar system once drifted through Orion’s star-forming region
The solar system moved through a star-forming area near Orion. This event might have increased interstellar dust around Earth ...
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What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy merge?
What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with ... Astronomers predict that our home galaxy and the nearest major galaxy to it, Andromeda (2.5 million light ...
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Our Solar System's journey through the Milky Way may have altered Earth’s climate
Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased ...
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What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy merge?
Astronomers predict that our home galaxy ... the first Milky Way/Andromeda close encounter. However, if this were not true, and provided that Earth wasn’t dislodged from the solar system itself ...