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Does the Milky Way orbit anything?

Do galaxies, including our own Milky Way, orbit anything in the universe?

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The Milky Way's heart shines over construction site of world's largest telescope

Construction of the Extremely Large Telescope has reached another milestone, with the completion of its dome's steel skeleton. A new image of the site includes a stunning view of the Milky Way.

Space

Euclid Space Telescope Unveils New Images Of The Cosmos

A mind-boggling number of shining galaxies, a purple and orange star nursery and a spiral galaxy similar to our Milky Way: new images were revealed from Europe's Euclid space telescope on Thursday.

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Euclid telescope spies rogue planets floating free in Milky Way

Wandering worlds are seen deep inside Orion nebula, a giant cloud of dust and gas 1,500 light years away

The Guardian - UK

The ancient Egyptian goddess of the sky and how I used modern astronomy to explore her link with the Milky Way

What did our ancestors think when they looked up at the night sky? All cultures ascribed special meaning to the sun and the moon, but what about the pearly band of light and shadow we call the Milky Way?

Space

Does the Milky Way orbit anything?

Do galaxies, including our own Milky Way, orbit anything in the universe?

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Some of the oldest stars in the universe found hiding near the Milky Way's edge — and they may not be alone

Astronomers reanalyzed the chemical composition of three stars in the Milky Way's halo and found that they are between 12 and 13 billion years old. They may have also been stolen from other galaxies.

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In the Milky Way, 3 intruder stars are 'on the run' — in the wrong direction

Three ancient stars that hail from cannibalized dwarf galaxies are "on the run" at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour in the Milky Way's galactic halo.

Space

Milky Way's halo is filled with 'magnetic donuts' as wide as 100,000 light-years

Astronomers have determined that the Milky Way's outer halo is filled with "magnetic donuts" that are as wide as 100,000 light-years. The discovery could shed light on how cosmic magnetic fields form and evolve.

Space

NASA's Chandra spacecraft spots supermassive black hole erupting in the Milky Way's heart

NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope has spotted the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy erupting, proving even quiet black holes like Sagittarius A* need to vent sometimes.

Space

Enormous explosion in 'Cigar Galaxy' reveals rare type of star never seen beyond the Milky Way

An incredibly brief, ultrabright explosion has led astronomers to a newfound magnetic star outside the Milky Way, which could be the first of many extragalactic magnetars, according to new research.

LiveScience

Scientists use AI to reconstruct energetic flare blasted from Milky Way's supermassive black hole

Combining AI and observations of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, scientists have reconstructed a 3D video of Sagittarius A* and its environment.

Space

Astronomers Discover Largest Black Hole In Milky Way: Study

The black hole, named Gaia BH3, was discovered "by chance" from data collected by the European Space Agency's Gaia mission.

Latin Times

Stars make a bigger mess in old galaxies, and scientists just figured out why

More evolved galaxies demonstrate a greater range of stellar motions compared to the orderly, circular orbits of stars like our sun in the Milky Way.

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Cannibal stars at the heart of the Milky Way stay young in a gruesome way

To remain youthful in a cosmic demolition derby around supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, some cannibalistic stars gruesomely bathe in outer layers of their stellar victims.

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Group of 60 ultra-faint stars orbiting the Milky Way could be new type of galaxy never seen before

A new satellite galaxy discovered orbiting the Milky Way is either an incredibly ancient, soon-to-fragment clump of stars or the most dark-matter-dominated dwarf galaxy ever found.

Space

The faintest star system orbiting our Milky Way may be dominated by dark matter

The stars of a possible ultra-faint dwarf galaxy, known as UMa3/U1, could be held in place by the gravitational glue of dark matter.

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Milky Way black hole has 'strong, twisted' magnetic field in mesmerizing new image

The polarized light image gives us a "new view of the monster lurking at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy," according to the European Southern Observatory.

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Black hole pic reveals Milky Way enigma

"Like a frenetic toddler," the monster at the heart of our galaxy is wild-whipping magnetic plasma

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Twisted magnetic field observed around Milky Way's central black hole

Astronomers announced that they have detected a strong and organised magnetic field twisted in a spiral pattern around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, revealing previously unknown qualities of the immensely powerful object lurking at the center of our galaxy

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New view of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way hints at an exciting hidden feature (image)

Astronomers have for the first time imaged the powerful magnetic fields that dwell around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*.

Space

'Shiva and Shakti': The ancient star streams that helped weave the Milky Way

The Gaia space telescope has discovered two ancient stellar streams woven through the heart of the Milky Way, which were present 12 billion years ago.

Space

Scientists reveal never-before-seen map of the Milky Way's central engine (image)

A new map spanning 500 light-years reveals the interaction between magnetic fields and dust in the Milky Way that will become the building blocks of stars.

Space

This iPhone app can find the Milky Way's monster black hole from anywhere

A new iPhone app, built with ChatGPT, allows you to find the center of the Milky Way by simply using your smartphone.

Space

The Milky Way's enormous, star-studded 'Radcliffe Wave' is literally waving

Scientists studied the Radcliffe Wave, a giant star-studded structure not far from our sun, to see that it is indeed "waving."

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