Two suns? No, it's a supernova drawn 6,000 years ago, say scientists | The Guardian
Indian researchers say carvings found in Kashmir may be the oldest depiction of a dying star ever discovered
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a collection of great resources for teaching about the sun, galaxies and the milky way
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Billion-star map of Milky Way set to transform astronomy | Nature
European Gaia spacecraft’s first major data dump — the most detailed 3D chart yet of our Galaxy — will keep researchers busy for decades...
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All disk galaxies rotate once every billion years | Astronomy.com
In a study published March 14 in The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers announced the discovery that all galaxies rotat...
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Observable Universe contains ten times more galaxies than previously thought | ESA/Hubble
Astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescopes and other telescopes have performed an accurate census of the number of galaxies i...
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Hubble finds first galaxy in the local Universe without dark matter
An international team of researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories have, for the first time, uncovered ...
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Where is the Sun located in the Milky Way? - Bad Astronomy
The Sun is located about halfway out from the galactic center. But where is it vertically in the Milky Way's flat disk?
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These are the stars the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft will encounter - MIT Technology Review
As the four craft exit our solar system, a 3D map of the Milky Way reveals which others they’re likely to visit tens of thousands of years on.
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