Image of the Day: Spectacular Star Factory With a Super-Massive Black Hole 100 Million X the Mass of Our Sun
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged this coiled galaxy (below) with an eye-like object at its center. The ‘eye’ at the center of...
Milky Way’s Center Yields Clues to the Origins of Life
Scientists are using the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to prospect in Sagittarius B2(N), a giant molecular cloud near the center of our Galaxy, some 25,000 light-years from...
Image of the Day: Ghost Eyes of Virgo
Virgo Galaxy Cluster lies a string of galaxies known as Markarian’s Chain about 50 million light-years away. Prominent in Markarian’s Chain are these two interacting galaxies, NGC 4438 (left) and...
Swarm of Black Holes & Neutron Stars Orbiting the Supermassive Monster at Milky Way’s Core
A swarm of 10,000 or more black holes may be orbiting the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, according to results from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This would...
Milky Way Found Rich in Small, Rocky Earth-like Planets (VIDEO)
Harvard astronomer Dimitar Sasselov, a co-investigator of NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, has declared that the “Galaxy is rich in small, Earth-like planets” at a Technology Entertainment...
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