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Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton, a team of researchers made ...

Astronomers have spent decades mapping the Milky Way, but the galaxy is too vast for anyone to see its full shape from the inside. Distances to its outer spiral arms have therefore relied heavily on ...

Rare gamma-ray bursts detected by powerful X-ray telescopes orbiting the Earth helped astronomers measure Milky Way spiral ...

The Milky Way’s farthest spiral arms have long been sketched more from motion than measurement. Now three violent explosions ...

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This brilliant new image, taken by Europe’s Euclid space telescope, offers a preview of the kind of imaging that will be ...

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WASHINGTON — An unusual collection of stars may represent the remnants of a dwarf galaxy that the Milky Way devoured about 10 billion years ago. Astronomers have dubbed the ancient galaxy Loki, after ...