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Has the safest place for life in the Milky Way been found?
Elizabeth Rayne
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The Milky Way stole a lot of its satellite galaxies from another small galaxy
Phil Plait
Oct 15, 2019
The Milky Way is a disk galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars. A new study indicates it underwent a burst of vigorous star formation that peaked about 2 billion years ago. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Caltech)
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The day our galaxy exploded
Phil Plait
Oct 10, 2019
Artwork showing the outburst from the center of the Milky Way and the Magellanic Stream of gas coming out of satellite galaxies. Credit: James Josephides/ASTRO 3D
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Where is the Sun located in the Milky Way?
Phil Plait
Oct 2, 2019
The most current map of the Milky Way is shown in an artist’s representation. The Sun is directly below the galactic center, near the Orion Spur. The Scutum-Centaurus arms sweeps out to the right and above, going behind the center to the far side.
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Where did this tiny ghostly galaxy Segue-1 come from?
Phil Plait
Jun 11, 2019
The location of the teeny tiny galaxy Segue-1, which is pretty much too faint to even see in this image, despite being right in the center. Credit: SIMBAD / DSS
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Two billion years ago, our galaxy had a burst of star birth
Phil Plait
May 23, 2019
The Milky Way is a disk galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars. A new study indicates it underwent a burst of vigorous star formation that peaked about 2 billion years ago. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Caltech)
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We live in a warped galaxy, say new observations of the Milky Way
Elizabeth Rayne
May 13, 2019
NASA image of warped galaxy
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See the Milky Way from its center with NASA’s 4K 360-degree VR simulation
Elizabeth Rayne
Mar 27, 2019
NASA Milky Way VR experience
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What is the mass of the Milky Way?
Phil Plait
Mar 8, 2019
The most current map of the Milky Way is shown in an artist’s representation. The Sun is directly below the galactic center, near the Orion Spur. The Scutum-Centaurus arms sweeps out to the right and above, going behind the center to the far side.
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Breathe easy: You have an extra 600 million years before Andromeda crashes into us
Phil Plait
Feb 11, 2019
Illustration of a cosmic train wreck: The Milky Way/Andromeda galaxy collision, four billion years from now. Credit: NASA, ESA, Z. Levay and R. van der Marel (STScI), T. Hallas, and A. Mellinger
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The Milky Way ate another galaxy, and we can still see the undigested bits
Phil Plait
Nov 6, 2018
Artwork depicting the stars from Gaia-Enceladus (arrows indicate their velocity) merging with the Milky Way based on actual physical simulations.
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The Milky Way’s sibling spiral star system
Phil Plait
Oct 19, 2018
The central region of the gorgeous spiral galaxy NGC 6744, imaged using the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the LEGUS team
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Stunning chaos in the galactic core
Phil Plait
Jul 17, 2018
The center of the Milky Way galaxy imaged in radio waves by the MeerKAT observatory. Supernova, stellar nurseries, and filaments of gas are strewn everywhere. Credit: MeerKAT
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Two planets discovered: One by gravity, one by accident [Part 1]
Phil Plait
May 29, 2018
Artwork of a star and exoplanet. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab
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My god. It *is* full of stars.
Phil Plait
May 7, 2018
The galactic center, a crowded metropolis of stars and dust. Credit: ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti & Acknowledgement: Ignacio Toledo
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Gaia: This is not a photo of the night sky
Phil Plait
Apr 30, 2018
A section of the all-sky map made using the second data release from the Gaia mission. This maps the density of stars versus position, where brighter pixels are places with more stars. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC
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