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

  Science | April 27, 2026 18:58 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 | November 16, 2024 12:09 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.

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  Milky Way's heaviest known black hole discovered by astronomers

  Science | April 17, 2024 12:57 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).

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

  Technology | November 12, 2023 19:11 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 20:37 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 16:28 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."

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  Barrier separating centre of Milky Way from cosmic ray sea discovered

  Science | November 22, 2021 8:09 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 | September 09, 2021 17:56 IST

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

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  Astronomers spot a 'blinking giant' near Milky Way

  Science | June 11, 2021 20:14 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. 

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

  Science | May 29, 2021 23:45 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. 

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

  Science | December 01, 2020 16:41 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.

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  Astronomers spot rare fast radio burst in our own Galaxy

  Science | November 04, 2020 23:28 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.

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  Earth-sized rogue planet found floating in Milky Way

  Science | November 01, 2020 16:37 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.

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  Recycled gas from stars surrounds Milky Way, shows mini satellite

  Science | October 20, 2020 15:31 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.

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

  Science | July 02, 2020 9:23 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.

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  Milky Way's warp caused by galactic collision

  Science | March 03, 2020 10:25 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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  New Milky Way map reveals huge wave of stellar nurseries

  Science | January 08, 2020 18:34 IST

  Astronomers at Harvard University have discovered a wave-shaped gaseous structure -- the largest ever seen in our galaxy -- made up of interconnected stellar nurseries.    

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  Most of Milky Way's stars may have formed in a relatively short time span: Study

  Science | December 17, 2019 17:41 IST

  ​Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have observed a star burst at the central part of the Milky Way, and found that the formation of most stars in the galaxy may have happened in a relatively short time span.

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  Centre of Milky Way exploded just over 3 million years ago: Study

  Science | October 07, 2019 16:21 IST

  The phenomenon, known as a Seyfert flare, created two enormous 'ionisation cones' that sliced through the Milky Way -- beginning with a relatively small diameter close to the black hole, and expanding vastly as they exited the galaxy.

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  Indian scientists discover 28 new stars in Milky Way

  Science | July 26, 2019 16:13 IST

  Scientists at the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) in Nainital have discovered 28 new variable stars in the Milky Way galaxy.