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Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have long been thought to lack the heft to attract mass and grow in the same way.
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in observations..
BAE Systems built both the spacecraft bus and telescope for the observatory, in addition to leading spacecraft integration ...
Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...
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The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...
Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...
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