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The gas orbiting Sagittarius A (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, is rich in metals ...

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Radio telescopes beneath the Milky Way. Astronomers have discovered a mysterious radio source in our galaxy that has been ...

See the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the Milky Way galaxy in this time-lapse view from the International Space Station.

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New MEGATRON simulations connect the first stars and dwarf galaxies, showing how ancient explosions may explain the iron patterns astronomers observe today.

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VLSS J0318.9+5755, a strange, musical-note-shaped radio source hiding behind the Milky Way’s dusty disk, has turned out to be ...