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An Enormous, Branching String of Galaxy Clusters Is the Largest Known Structure in the Universe, Scientists Say
The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...
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Scrawny Star With Large Planet Breaks Galactic Speed Record At 1.9 Million Kilometers Per Hour
Around the galaxy exist stars that have been given a push, and orbit much faster than the vast majority of their stellar ...
Astronomy: Star with exoplanet may be hurtling out of the Milky Way
A research team may have discovered a star with an exoplanet that is so fast that both will leave the Milky Way.
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 ...
Nasa's James Webb telescope zeroes in on asteroid that could hit Earth
Nasa is directing the James Webb Space Telescope to track asteroid 2024 YR4, whose collision risk with Earth has risen to 2.3 ...
Astronomers Track a Runaway Star and Its Planet Traveling at Hyperspeed
The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...
Scientists spot candidate for speediest exoplanet system
Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...
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How Our Galaxy's Black Hole Was Captured
Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* Supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy - Milky Way vs ...
Gaia Just Found Two Massive Objects That Shouldn’t Exist – And Astronomers Are Stunned
Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...
101 Galaxies Later: Why the Milky Way Stands Out in the Universe
New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...
LISA: What the Revolutionary Gravitational Wave Observatory Will Actually See
LISA is set to revolutionize our understanding of the gravitational universe and the interactions that make the entire cosmos ...