Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way
Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...
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Discovery Of A Young Large Magellanic Cloud Star System With Planet-Forming Disk
The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system HH 1177 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ESO ...
A recipe for baby stars: Just add fluffy molecular clouds
“The data indicates that the youngest stars form in filaments of gas,” Loeb said. “Subsequently the gas cools and fragments ...
Gemini South observes ultra-hot nova erupting with surprising chemical signature
Nova explosions occur in binary star systems in which a white dwarf—the dense remnant of a dead star—continually siphons stellar material from a nearby companion star. As the outer atmosphere of the ...
A twinkling group of stars dominates the center of this Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 2002 is an open star cluster that resides roughly 160,000 light-years aw…
Star clusters are formed when gravity pulls young stars together, forcing them to orbit each other. A star cluster can ...
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Hubble Telescope sets its eyes on cosmic cotton candy near the Tarantula Nebula (photo)
Hubble Space Telescope image of the colorful clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large ...
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Deadly black hole, 6 lakh times heavier than the sun, heading for Milky Way: Scientists warn
A supermassive black hole, six lakh times the mass of the Sun, is moving towards the Milky Way from the Large Magellanic Cloud. Scientists, led by astrophysicist Jiwon Jesse Han, identified this ...
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A monster black hole, 6,000,000 times the mass of the Sun is coming to collide with our Milky Way
Scientists have detected signs of a massive, invisible object within the Large Magellanic Cloud. Weighing around 600,000 times the Sun’s mass, this suspected black hole could eventually merge ...
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See the stunning cosmic clouds captured in new Hubble image
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away. ESA/Hubble & NASA, C.