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Sagittarius existed in real dimensions but over the past approximately 6 billion years, Milky Way has been absorbing dwarf galaxyWhether the Milky Way's early growth was fueled by homegrown star formation or a galactic merger has been a matter of debate, according to...
Our Milky Way devoured a galaxy 11.8 billion years ago. Another crash may happen in 4.5 billion yearsThe Milky Way swallowed a smaller dwarf galaxy about 11.8 billion years ago, marking the earliest known merger in its history. Scientists u...
Just 548 light years from Earth, this massive red supergiant nearly 1,000 times larger than our Sun is about to explodeAstronomers have discovered Betelgeuse harbors a hidden stellar companion. This finding complicates predictions about its eventual supernov...
Hyderabad-born MIT astronomer Rohan Naidu, who dropped out of engineering at 18 & loves Test cricket, is behind the 'Black Hole Star' discoveryBlack Hole Star: A Hyderabad-born astronomer and fellow scientists have identified a possible ‘black hole star’ using the James Webb Space ...
Quote of the day by Tom Hanks: "It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like..." The Interstellar actor’s powerful take on science, wonder, imagination and the mysteries of the universeThe quote of the day by Tom Hanks beautifully captures the connection between science, imagination and human wonder. In this inspiring quot...
Quote of the day by Edwin Hubble: 'We do not know why we are born into the world, but we can try to find out what sort of a world it is.' American astronomer on understanding our place in the universeCurious is what makes people differ from other animals. Years ago, famed American astronomer Edwin Hubble encouraged people to be more inqu...
Betelgeuse has a companion star, Siwarha. Astronomers confirm the dying red giant isn't alone. Here's what it meansBetelgeuse's companion star discovered explained its variable brightness. Astronomers have confirmed Betelgeuse, a famous night sky star, h...
Scientists discover four new stars right next to Earth: White dwarfs were hiding behind brighter red dwarfs; discovery made using Hubble's ultraviolet cameraAstronomers from the University of Warwick and University of Colorado Boulder have found four white dwarf stars hiding in binary systems wi...
Rescue mission launches to save NASA telescope that's falling back to EarthA mission is underway to save NASA's Swift Observatory from a fiery plunge. Launched from the Pacific, a specialised spacecraft named Link ...
3I/ATLAS mystery deepens: Discovered on July 1 last year, study suggest the cosmic visitor may be older than the Sun, Earth or any other object in our solar systemAn Oxford PhD student, Matthew Hopkins, analyzed 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object possibly older than our Sun. This visitor, the third conf...
NASA races to save Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with daring rescue missionNASA is launching a daring $30 million mission this week to rescue the aging Swift Observatory from falling back to Earth. A robotic lifesa...
NASA just discovered a living relic from the Milky Way’s earliest days hidden in plain sightNASA proved Terzan 5 is not a globular star cluster but a living fossil from the Milky Way's earliest formation. Webb and Hubble jointly re...
NASA looked back at the first Black Hole ever photographed, and found a big surpriseThe universe keeps reshaping our cosmic perspective. When the Event Horizon Telescope captured the historic first image of a black hole in ...
Hubble telescope discovers largest protoplanetary disk Dracula’s Chivito – planet formation insightsScientists using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered the largest protoplanetary disk ever, nicknamed Dracula’s Chivito, about 1,000 light...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures stunning image of ‘cosmic eye’ spiral galaxy. It sits 76,000,000 light years away from EarthThe Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy designated as NGC 2566, at a distance of 76 million years in the constellation of P...
Hubble Space Telescope faces setback, here's what happenedThere seems to be some trouble with one of the Hubble Space Telescope's three gyroscopes, the last working ones in its arsenal, prompting m...
Astronomical Awe: NASA Hubble Telescope captures galactic collision; Pic insideThis NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features Arp 122, a peculiar galaxy that in fact comprises two galaxies — NGC 6040, the tilted, ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope: Know about its mission, discoveries, observations, contributionsNASA's Hubble Space Telescope is in the news once again after studying a dwarf red star located 32 light years from the Earth. What is Hubb...
700 million light-years away! Jellyfish galaxy JO 206 swims across Hubble Telescope's lensThe galaxy's "tentacles" are long tendrils of star formation that trail behind the galaxy's disk, resembling the aquatic animal. These tend...
New asteroid strike images show impact 'a lot bigger than expected'The James Webb and Hubble telescopes on Thursday revealed their first images of a spacecraft deliberately smashing into an asteroid, as ast...