ESA’s XMM-Newton has discovered that gas lurking within the Milky Way’s halo reaches far hotter temperatures…
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Astronomy
Connecting The Dots In The Sky Could Shed New Light On Dark Matter
Astrophysicists have come a step closer to understanding the origin of a faint glow of gamma…
First Sighting Of Hot Gas Sloshing In A Galaxy Cluster
ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has spied hot gas sloshing around within a galaxy cluster – a…
Merger of Milky Way with Dwarf Galaxy Dated
The dwarf galaxy Gaia-Enceladus collided with the Milky Way probably approximately 11.5 billion years ago. …
Stars Need A Partner To Spin The Universe’s Brightest Explosions
When it comes to the biggest and brightest explosions seen in the Universe, University of Warwick…
Stellar Heavy Metals Can Trace History Of Galaxies
Astronomers have cataloged signs of 9 heavy metals in the infrared light from supergiant and giant…
Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Yield Independent Measure of Universe’s Expansion
A team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has measured the universe’s expansion rate using…
SOFIA Reveals How the Swan Nebula Hatched
One of the brightest and most massive star-forming regions in our galaxy, the Omega, or Swan,…
Binary Star V Sagittae Will Explode as a Very Bright ‘Nova’ by Century’s End
Currently, the faint star V Sagittae, V Sge, in the constellation Sagitta, is barely visible, even…
LIGO-Virgo: Gravitational Wave Network Catches Another Neutron Star Collision
On April 25, 2019, the LIGO Livingston Observatory picked up what appeared to be gravitational ripples…