Astronomers discover new giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way
Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have detected a new giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way galaxy. The ...
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Astronomers Spot a New Giant Molecular Cloud in the Milky Way, 23,000 Light Years Away
Astronomers have discovered a new giant molecular cloud (GMC) in the Milky Way, a finding that has expanded our understanding ...
Water Formed Much Sooner After the Big Bang Than We Thought, Scientists Say—Which May Mean Life Did, Too
Primordial supernovae got the ball rolling a quick hundred million years or so after the start of the universe.
Star formation in the the Milky Way: Impressive image provides the answer
In the center of the Milky Way, the conditions are actually ideal for the formation of stars. Now there is a clue as to why ...
Stellar Time Machine: Rare Particle Decay Sheds Light on the Sun’s Mysterious Origins
New experiments on thallium decay have helped determine the Sun formed over 10–20 million years, improving stellar ...
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Hubble Telescope spies star-forming cocoons in neighboring galaxy (photo)
Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.
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Webb telescope captures images, insight from one of Milky Way’s most extreme environments
In new images, scientists have gotten the close look yet at Sagittarius C—a "stellar nursery" where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.
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Unseen giant molecular cloud detected 23,000 light-years away in the Milky Way
Astronomers have detected a previously unknown giant molecular cloud (GMC) at the midpoint of the Galactic Bar Dust Lanes ...