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X‑Ray Echoes Show Two Outer Milky Way Arms About 10% Farther Than Thought

A geometry‑based measurement using X‑ray rings gives an independent distance check that could alter estimates of the galaxy’s size, mass distribution and rotation models.

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Scientists Detect Wind From Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

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4mo ago

Webb Finds Dust-Obscured Red Supergiant Behind 2025 Supernova, a First for the Telescope

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4mo ago

Hubble, Euclid and Subaru Reveal Ultra-Faint Galaxy Candidate Dominated by Dark Matter

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4mo ago

Starlight Falls Short: Study Finds Dust-Driven Winds Don’t Work for Nearby Red Giant

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6mo ago

Webb Finds Helium–Carbon Atmosphere on First Hot Jupiter Known Around a Pulsar

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7mo ago

Study Challenges 'Ice Giant' Label for Uranus and Neptune

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7mo ago

JWST Reveals a Mature Grand-Design Spiral Galaxy Far Earlier Than Models Predict

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8mo ago

Dark Matter’s Motion Matches Gravity, Study Caps Any Extra Force at 7%

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8mo ago

eROSITA Map Reveals Interstellar Tunnel From Local Hot Bubble Toward Centaurus

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9mo ago

UCSC Model Links JWST Steam Detections to the Interiors of Sub‑Neptune Worlds

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10mo ago

VLT Uncovers Gas Ring as V Sagittae’s White Dwarf Goes Thermonuclear

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10mo ago

Study Finds Solar Flares Superheat Ions 6.5 Times More Than Electrons

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10mo ago

Black Hole-Star Encounter Likely Sparked Rare Double-Peaked Supernova

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11mo ago

James Webb Uncovers Massive Early Galaxies and a Fading Exoplanet Candidate

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11mo ago

New Gravity-Only Models Propose Mirror Sector and Cosmic Horizon Origins for Dark Matter

Research Studies

X‑Ray Echoes Show Two Outer Milky Way Arms About 10% Farther Than Thought

Scientists Detect Wind From Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

Webb Finds Dust-Obscured Red Supergiant Behind 2025 Supernova, a First for the Telescope

Hubble, Euclid and Subaru Reveal Ultra-Faint Galaxy Candidate Dominated by Dark Matter

JWST Spots Most Distant ‘Jellyfish’ Galaxy Candidate at Redshift 1.156

Black Hole’s Delayed Tidal Disruption Jet Keeps Surging, Now 50× Brighter

Dark Matter Core Model Challenges Black Hole at Milky Way’s Center

JWST Reveals Pulsar-Orbiting ‘Lemon’ Planet With Helium–Carbon Atmosphere

Starlight Falls Short: Study Finds Dust-Driven Winds Don’t Work for Nearby Red Giant

Webb Finds Helium–Carbon Atmosphere on First Hot Jupiter Known Around a Pulsar

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Study Challenges 'Ice Giant' Label for Uranus and Neptune

JWST Reveals a Mature Grand-Design Spiral Galaxy Far Earlier Than Models Predict

Dark Matter’s Motion Matches Gravity, Study Caps Any Extra Force at 7%

eROSITA Map Reveals Interstellar Tunnel From Local Hot Bubble Toward Centaurus

UCSC Model Links JWST Steam Detections to the Interiors of Sub‑Neptune Worlds

VLT Uncovers Gas Ring as V Sagittae’s White Dwarf Goes Thermonuclear

Study Finds Solar Flares Superheat Ions 6.5 Times More Than Electrons

Black Hole-Star Encounter Likely Sparked Rare Double-Peaked Supernova

James Webb Uncovers Massive Early Galaxies and a Fading Exoplanet Candidate

New Gravity-Only Models Propose Mirror Sector and Cosmic Horizon Origins for Dark Matter

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