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Earth’s water may have come from Space: NASA’s SPHEREx Finds massive water ice deposits in space

Science | Apr 27, 2026, 06:58 PM IST

dNASA’s SPHEREx telescope has discovered huge water ice deposits inside Cygnus X, a star-forming region located 4,500 light-years away. Scientists say these frozen reservoirs may help explain how Earth received water and how future planets could gain ingredients needed for life.

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Hubble discovers Milky Way's impact on large Magellanic cloud

Science | Nov 16, 2024, 12:09 PM IST

Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) losing its gas halo due to a close encounter with the Milky Way. The LMC’s halo, now just 50,000 light-years wide, has been reduced by gravitational forces. Researchers highlight this as a key example of galactic interactions.

Milky Way's heaviest known black hole discovered by astronomers

Science | Apr 17, 2024, 12:57 PM IST

An international space research team has discovered the black hole while analyzing the most recent data captured by the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope, as stated by Israel's Tel Aviv University (TAU).

Webb telescope to help you find Milky Way-like galaxies in early universe: All you need to know

Technology | Nov 12, 2023, 07:11 PM IST

Alexander de la Vega, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Riverside stated "This galaxy, named ceers-2112, formed soon after the Big Bang."

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First image of supermassive black hole at centre of Milky Way galaxy revealed

Science | May 12, 2022, 08:37 PM IST

Scientists had previously seen stars orbiting around something invisible, compact, and very massive at the centre of the Milky Way.

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NASA releases new images comparing sharper view of Universe using MIRI vs Spitzer telescopes

Science | May 10, 2022, 04:28 PM IST

The James Webb Space Telescope is the world’s largest, most powerful, and most complex space science telescope ever built. Webb’s image, taken by its MIRI instrument, features light from “polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons."

Barrier separating centre of Milky Way from cosmic ray sea discovered

Science | Nov 22, 2021, 08:09 AM IST

The team investigated a map of radioactive gamma-rays -- the highest-energy form of light in the universe, which can arise when extremely high-speed particles called cosmic rays crash into ordinary matter -- blasting in and around the center of our galaxy.

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Milky Way galaxy is not homogeneous as previously thought

India | Sep 09, 2021, 05:56 PM IST

As a result of the findings, detailed in the journal Nature, simulations of the Milky Way's evolution will have to be modified.

Astronomers spot a 'blinking giant' near Milky Way

Science | Jun 11, 2021, 08:14 PM IST

An international team of astronomers has spotted a giant 'blinking' star towards the centre of the Milky Way, more than 25,000 light years away.

NASA releases stunning new pic of Milky Way's 'downtown'

Science | May 29, 2021, 11:45 PM IST

NASA has released a stunning new picture of our galaxy’s violent, super-energized “downtown.” It's a composite of 370 observations over the past two decades by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, depicting billions of stars and countless black holes in the center, or heart, of the Milky Way.

Earth inching closer to supermassive black hole at 7 km per second, reveals study

Science | Dec 01, 2020, 04:41 PM IST

Earth is inching closer to a supermassive black hole in the Milky Way galaxy at 7 km per second, a study has found out. According to a map issued by Japanese radio astronomy project VERA, earth in the past 35 years has travelled some 1,900 light years and is now sitting at a distance of 25,800 light years from the black hole.

Astronomers spot rare fast radio burst in our own Galaxy

Science | Nov 04, 2020, 11:28 PM IST

A group of astronomers has for the first time detected a powerful fast radio burst (FRB) coming from a source in our own Galaxy, the Milky Way, which is 30,000 light-years away.

Earth-sized rogue planet found floating in Milky Way

Science | Nov 01, 2020, 04:37 PM IST

Rogue planets are a bit uncommon as although many of the known exoplanets discovered so far do not resemble those in our solar system, they have one thing in common -- they all orbit a star.

Recycled gas from stars surrounds Milky Way, shows mini satellite

Science | Oct 20, 2020, 03:31 PM IST

Observations made by a small spacecraft called HaloSat have shown that the Milky Way galaxy is surrounded by a clumpy halo of hot gases that is continually being supplied with material ejected by birthing or dying stars.

This Hungriest black hole can eat one sun a day (Representational image)

This Hungriest black hole can eat one sun a day. Check deets

Science | Jul 02, 2020, 09:23 AM IST

The supermassive black hole, J2157, will soon become the largest black hole in the universe--Abell 85--which has a mass of 40 billion suns. The black hole is 1.2 billion light-years away from Earth and 8,000 times bigger than the black hole Sagittarius A*, which is at the centre of the Milky way.

Milky Way's warp caused by galactic collision

Science | Mar 03, 2020, 10:25 AM IST

With its unique survey of more than one billion stars in our galaxy, Gaia might hold the key to solving this mystery. A team of scientists using data from the second Gaia data release has now confirmed previous hints that this warp is not static but changes its orientation over time.

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