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Tag: Bad Astronomy

The sky is filled with rivers of darkness

Phil Plait

Jul 20, 2021

A portion of the huge Taurus Molecular Cloud is seen here in two-panel mosaic. The darkest areas are where stars are being born, hidden from view by thick clots of dust. Credit: Adam Block /Steward Observatory/University of Arizona

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

What caused an old, giant star to disappear for over half a year?

Phil Plait

Jul 8, 2021

Philip Plait Bad Astronomy Star Eclipsed Dust Disk

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Local Group

The motions of 66 nearby galaxies have now been reliably measured. Not stars. *Galaxies*.

Phil Plait

Jul 1, 2021

The magnificent Andromeda Galaxy along with its companion M32 (upper left of center). Credit: Local Group Survey Team and T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage)

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Local Group

Tag: Dark Matter

The dark force secretly slowing down our galaxy could be dark matter

Elizabeth Rayne

Jun 22, 2021

Tag: Dark Matter

Tag: Bad Astronomy

How long would it take for an alien civilization to populate an entire galaxy?

Phil Plait

Jun 17, 2021

A modern map of the Milky Way Galaxy, showing the Sun below center. Despite being 120,000 light years across, even using relatively modest technology it could be explored in just a few hundred million years. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Caltech)

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Illuminating new research refines timeline of how and when Milky Way formed

Jeff Spry

May 18, 2021

Tag: Dark Matter

Dark matter could be powering a galaxy that orbits the Milky Way until they collide

Elizabeth Rayne

May 1, 2021

Tag: Dark Matter

Has the safest place for life in the Milky Way been found?

Elizabeth Rayne

Apr 2, 2021

New study believes the Milky Way is swimming with watery worlds like Earth

Jeff Spry

Feb 24, 2021

ESA’s trippy time-lapse video travels 1.6 million years into the Milky Way’s future

Elizabeth Rayne

Dec 12, 2020

Gaia Milky Way projection

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: globular clusters

Astronomers see the Milky Way eating one of its own

Phil Plait

Oct 19, 2020

M92, a globular cluster about 27,000 light years from Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: Gilles Chapdelaine

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: globular clusters

Tag: star formation

Is the Milky Way evolving right before our eyes? Something it just spewed out could mean exactly that

Elizabeth Rayne

Aug 26, 2020

NASA image of the Milky Way

Tag: star formation

Tag: Bad Astronomy

The fastest star in the galaxy has been found, and yeah, it’s really *really* fast

Phil Plait

Aug 17, 2020

A simulation showing the positions and orbits of stars orbiting the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/spaceengine.org

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Alien Life

New research paper theorizes there might be 36 alien civilizations in the Milky Way

Jeff Spry

Jun 18, 2020

Tag: Alien Life

Tag: Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Space Telescope snaps ultra-clear image of 13-billion-year-old globular cluster

Jeff Spry

Jun 5, 2020

Tag: Hubble Space Telescope

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