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'Cosmic fire' and Earthly ice: See the breathtaking winners of the Milky Way Photographer of the Year 2025 contest

Mind-boggling beauty abounds in photographs from around the globe submitted to this year's Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest.

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Astronomers spy puzzlingly 'perfect' cosmic orb with unknown size and location

New radio images reveal an unusually faint and symmetrical supernova remnant, nicknamed Telios, lurking just below the galactic plane of the Milky Way. However, they cannot tell exactly where it is, how big it is or how it formed.

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The Milky Way will be visible across the US this month. Here's how to get the best views.

For those in midlatitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, the arc of our galaxy becomes easier to see in May. Here's when and where to look.

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Ancient Egyptians drew the Milky Way on coffins and tombs, linking them to sky goddess, study finds

A new study links the Egyptian goddess Nut with the Milky Way galaxy.

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These 5000-year-old Egyptian coffins depict the Milky Way galaxy, astrophysicist says

A recent study on ancient Egyptian imagery suggests rare drawings of the sky goddess Nut represent the earliest visualization of the Milky Way galaxy's Great Rift.

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Our galactic neighbor Andromeda has a bunch of satellite galaxies — and they're weirdly pointing at us

The Andromeda galaxy's family of satellite galaxies point towards the Milky Way, and nobody knows why.

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Where did this extremely magnetic, dense and dead star come from? Scientists aren't quite sure

Using the Hubble and Gaia space telescopes, astronomers have discovered that a powerfully magnetic neutron star in the Milky Way wasn't born in a supernova.

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How new dark matter could solve mystery about Milky Way

Telescopes have detected a mysterious glow of gamma rays

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James Webb telescope spots Milky Way's long-lost 'twin' — and it is 'fundamentally changing our view of the early universe'

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The perplexing Milky Way 'twin' dates to 1 billion years after the Big Bang, and appears too big to explain.

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New form of dark matter could solve decades-old Milky Way mystery

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way’s core, appears to be ionised (meaning it is electrically charged because it has lost electrons) at a…

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James Webb Space Telescope discovers most distant and earliest Milky Way 'twin' ever seen. Meet dragon-galaxy Zhúlóng (image)

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen, a "Milky Way twin" that existed 1 billion years after the Big Bang.

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Astronomers are shocked to find our galaxy's nearest neighbor is being torn to shreds

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to the Milky Way — is being torn apart by its larger neighbor.

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Nearby star photobombs portrait of a distant galaxy in new Hubble Telescope image

A bright star located in the Milky Way appears nestled in the distant galaxy NGC 5530 due to a chance alignment along the Hubble Space Telescope's line of sight.

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Space photo of the week: The chaotic heart of the Milky Way like you've never seen it before

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields affect star formation at the chaotic center of the Milky Way.

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Gaia telescope retires: Scientists bid farewell to 'the discovery machine of the decade' that mapped 2 billion Milky Way stars

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as "the discovery machine of the decade."

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Hubble Telescope captures gorgeous new view of Milky Way's star-packed galactic neighbor (photo)

The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest galactic neighbors, which is full of bright, colorful stars.

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2 newly found exoplanets reignite an outstanding question about our solar system

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our own solar system.

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'Very rare' black hole energy jet discovered tearing through a spiral galaxy shaped like our own

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

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Dazzling photos of this month's total lunar eclipse showcase a blood red moon near the Milky Way's heart

Breathtaking photos of this month's total lunar eclipse capture a blood red moon and star-studded Milky Way over NOIRLab's Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.

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'Unlike any objects we know': Scientists get their best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling at the Milky Way's center

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters could play an important role in distributing organic molecules throughout the galaxy.

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High-school student accidentally discovers black hole 'light echo' twice as wide as the Milky Way

While sifting out signatures of supernova remnants, a high-schooler stumbled upon the afterglow of a dormant black hole. It may be one of the largest ever seen.

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Cosmic 'tornadoes' rage around the heart of the Milky Way and its supermassive black hole

Astronomers have discovered filaments of matter swirling tornado-like around the heart of the Milky Way, home to the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*.

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Wispy comet photobombs 'rare' planetary parade above Chile's Atacama Desert (photos)

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in breathtaking new photos from the European Southern Observatory.

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Mysterious phenomenon at the heart of the Milky Way could point to new dark matter suspect. 'We may have been overlooking its subtle chemical effects on the cosmos.'

Strange events at the heart of the Milky Way could point toward a new dark suspect that annihilates to influence the chemistry of the cosmos.

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A monster black hole may be hiding in the galaxy next door: 'It is astounding'

A hidden monster black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud fired runaway stars at the Milky Way at millions of miles per hour.

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