Astronomers Spot a High-Speed Star That May Carry a Planet With It
A fast-moving star, possibly with an exoplanet, has been detected in the Milky Way, challenging current astrophysical models.
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Fastest exoplanet ever is dragged through space at 1.2 million mph by hypervelocity star
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies?
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
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A Supermassive Black Hole Is on a Collision Course With The Milky Way
A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large Magellanic ...
2 space objects are traveling so fast, they might exit the galaxy
In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...
White dwarf stars may host more habitable exoplanets than expected
Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...
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Scientist image 3-million-light-year-long 'cosmic web' ensnaring 2 galaxies for 1st time
"For the first time, we could trace the boundary between the gas residing in galaxies and the material contained within the ...
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Does The Milky Way Move Like A Spinning Top?
An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...