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Star births seen on cosmic scale in distant galaxy

Scientists have located a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year. Astronomers used NASA's Chandra X-Ray telescope to spot this distant gigantic galaxy creating about 740 new stars a year. By comparison, our Milky Way galaxy spawns just about one new star each year.

 

Andromeda Galaxy to smack into Milky Way

Colliding Galaxies

Hubble space telescope observations suggest that another large galaxy will collide with our own Milky Way in about 4 billion years.

 

"Tens of billions" of habitable worlds in Milky Way

Planets

Astronomers hunting for rocky planets with the right temperature to support life estimate there may be tens of billions of them in our galaxy alone.

 

Astronomers See More Planets Than Stars in Galaxy

The more astronomers look for other worlds, the more they find that it's a crowded and crazy cosmos. They think planets easily outnumber stars in our galaxy and they're even finding them in the strangest of places... "We're finding an exciting potpourri of things we didn't even think could exist," said Harvard University astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger, including planets that mirror "Star Wars" Luke Skywalker's home planet with twin suns and a mini-star system with a dwarf sun and shrunken planets.

 

Planets may be vastly more numerous than believed

Planets may be vastly more numerous than believed

The Milky Way galaxy may be filled with millions upon millions of Jupiter-sized planets that have escaped their solar systems and are wandering freely in space, researchers said Wednesday in a finding that seems certain to make astronomers rethink their ideas about planetary formation.

 

Just found: The planet from another galaxy

Scientists have discovered the first planet from another galaxy, sort of. While some 500 planets have been identified in other parts of our galaxy — the Milky Way— none has been reported in other galaxies.

 

Huge Bubbles of Energy Found at Center of Galaxy

Scientists discovered two bubbles of energy erupting from the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

 

3,000 images combine for Milky Way portrait

A new panoramic image of the full night sky — with the Milky Way as its centerpiece — has been made by piecing together 3,000 individual photographs.

 

Storms of Saturn's Moon Titan - A Model of the Early Earth?

Storms of Saturn's Moon Titan - A Model of the Early Earth?

NASA's Cassini spacecraft buzzed Titan last year, coming close enough to taste the Saturnian moon's atmosphere. The data acquired has implications for our understanding of life throughout the galaxy, as well as Earth's own past.

 

Dark Matter Filament Detected Near the Milky Way

Dark Matter Filament Detected Near the Milky Way

Theoretical calculations done by astrophysicists at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem led by Professor Avishai Dekel, show that low mass galaxies can form when intergalactic gas streams into dark matter haloes and not by intergalactic gas heated by a virial shock to millions of degrees.

 

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