An international team of astronomers has detected a cosmic phenomenon never seen before—an object that emits simultaneous pulses of radio waves and X-rays for two minutes, repeating the cycle every 44 minutes. The signal has been named ASKAP J1832-0911 and is located in our galaxy, the Milky Way, about 15,000 light-years from Earth. The finding, […]
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What Is the Massive Spherical Plasma Bubble Astronomers Have Discovered in Our Galaxy? They Still Don’t Know Its Origin or Age
An international team of astronomers has discovered a strange cosmic object in our galaxy that they have named Teleios, a Greek word meaning “perfect,” since the object has an almost perfectly circular shape, something extremely unusual in the universe. The discovery, made thanks to observations by the Australian ASKAP telescope, revealed that Teleios is so […]
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Over 300 Solar Systems Are Forming in the Center of the Milky Way, Scientists Discover
Astronomers have been identifying protoplanetary disks for many decades—structures that evolve into solar systems like our own—and they have been found by the hundreds throughout the Milky Way, primarily in relatively calm regions of the galaxy. Now, scientists have discovered more than 500 of these cores thanks to observations made with the ALMA telescope in […]
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Dark matter, the enigmatic force that shapes the universe, is born from particles that condense like steam into water
A team of researchers from Dartmouth College has proposed a new hypothesis that could verifiably explain the central enigma of cosmology: What is the dark matter that makes up 85 percent of our universe, and how is it formed? We have never been able to see it, but we know it exists because we can […]
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All but one of Andromeda’s 37 satellite galaxies point toward the Milky Way—something so strange it challenges current cosmology
A recent study published in Nature Astronomy has revealed that the dwarf galaxies orbiting around Andromeda, our neighboring galaxy, are distributed in such an uneven way that it calls into question the most widely accepted cosmological theories. According to the researchers, this asymmetric arrangement is so extreme that it is almost impossible to explain with […]
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Huge Invisible Molecular Cloud Discovered Near Earth
In a discovery that challenges conventional astronomical observation techniques, a team of researchers led by Rutgers University–New Brunswick has identified a colossal molecular hydrogen cloud, one of the largest structures in the sky and one of the closest to Earth. The cloud, named Eos after the Greek goddess of the dawn, was detected using an […]
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A Magnetar of Unknown Origin, Capable of Destroying Atoms a Thousand Kilometers Away, Is Crossing the Milky Way
A rogue magnetar, named SGR 0501+4516, is crossing our galaxy without a clear trace of its birth, according to a study published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. This object, initially discovered in 2008 by NASA’s Swift observatory, is one of the 30 known magnetars in the Milky Way, but its behavior challenges conventional theories […]
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The Abyss of Barnard 68, a Great Dark Spot in the Firmament
On the vast canvas of the cosmos, where starlight typically reigns supreme, there are regions in which darkness not only persists, but dominates. One of them is Barnard 68, a dark nebula that, despite its apparent invisibility, holds one of the most fascinating secrets of the universe: the birth of a star. Located in the […]
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Scientists Propose We Live in a Slowly Rotating Universe That Completes One Rotation Every 500 Billion Years
A team of scientists has proposed a revolutionary idea to explain one of the greatest contradictions in our understanding of the universe: the discrepancy in measuring its rate of expansion, known as the Hubble Tension. According to a study published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the answer might lie in […]
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Astronomers Observe a Bright Emission from a Galaxy in the Mysterious Haze of the Early Universe
An international team of astronomers has detected the bright hydrogen emission coming from a galaxy located in an unusually early period of cosmic history, thanks to the unprecedented infrared sensitivity of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This finding challenges existing theories on early galaxy formation and raises questions about the evolution of the universe […]
