The Milky Way's supermassive black hole is generally a picky eater, but NASA's NuSTAR spacecraft recently caught it in the act of having a snack!
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A recent study proposes the galaxy is crowded with nomad planets adrift in space. If this is the case, nomad planets may play a dynamic role in the universe. 
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“We have successfully uncovered and mapped the most comprehensive long-distance network of the Macaque monkey brain, which is essential for understanding the brain’s behavior, complexity, dynamics and computation,” announced Dharmendra S.
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A European space observatory has discovered something peculiar about our galaxy: it's humming in microwaves and, for the moment, the source of the radiation is a complete mystery. Also, the Milky Way is home to previously unknown "islands" of cold carbon monoxide gas, helping astronomers uncover the distribution of star-forming regions.
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An ongoing rocky buffet would explain bright x-ray flares seen around our galaxy's supermassive black hole since 1999, astronomers say.
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Our solar system is traveling slowly through an interstellar cloud of gases.
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The Milky Way Project aims to sort and measure our galaxy. We're asking you to help us find and draw bubbles in beautiful infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope. Understanding the cold, dusty material that we see in these images, helps scientists to learn how stars form and how our galaxy changes and evolves with time.
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An international team has used the technique of gravitational microlensing to measure how common planets are in the Milky Way.
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Astronomers have spotted a cloud of gas with four times the mass of the Earth on a near-collision course with the Milky Way's central black hole.
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NASA announced that Kepler has uncovered 1,094 more potential planets, twice the number it previously had been tracking, including more than 500 planets found to orbit stars beyond our solar system. IThe newly discovered Kepler 22-B is the smallest and the best positioned to have liquid water on its surface – among the ingredients necessary for life on Earth. It is 2.4 times the size of the Earth, putting it in a class known as “super-Earths”.
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Is there a genocidal countdown built into the motion of our solar system?
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Our planet has faced many dangers on its epic journey around the galaxy.
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Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. Astronomers no longer have any doubt: Our Milky Way Galaxy will have a head-on collision with Andromeda.
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Astronomers concluded that the center of the specatacular spiral galaxy, NGC 253 above, the largest member of the Sculptor Group of Galaxies, the nearest group to our own Local Group of Galaxies, hosts a twin of Sagittarius A*, the bright radio source that lies at the core of the Milky Way and which we know harbors a massive black hole.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Our Milky Way galaxy is surrounded by some 200 compact groups of stars, containing up to a million stars each.
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The Milky Way's ancient stars once belonged to other galaxies instead of being the earliest stars born inside the galaxy when it began to form about 10 billion years ago. Many of the Milky Way's ancient stars are remnants of other smaller galaxies ripped asunder by violent galactic collisions around five billion years ago, according to research that was part of the Aquarius Project, which uses the largest supercomputer simulations to study the formation of galaxies like the Milky Way.
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Thousands of mini-galaxies have been predicted but never seen in what's called the missing satellites problem.
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It’s not your father’s galaxy.With breathtaking speed, astronomers are rewriting our understanding of the universe in which we live.
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The Milky Way Contains At Least 100 Billion Planets According to Survey - SpaceRef...
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It sounds like the start of a bad joke: do you know about the bar in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy?
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Astronomers have known for years that something seems to be pulling our Milky Way and tens of thousands of other galaxies toward itself at a breakneck 22 million kilometers (14 million miles) per hour. But they couldn’t pinpoint exactly what or where it is. A huge volume of space that includes the Milky Way and super-clusters of galaxies is flowing towards a mysterious, gigantic unseen mass named mass astronomers have dubbed "The Great Attractor," some 250 million light years from our Solar System.
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“We have found what we hoped we'd find when we set out on this journey with Cassini nearly 13 years ago: visibility into the mechanisms that have sculpted not only Saturn's rings, but celestial disks of a far grander scale,...
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Astronomers have found two new star streams coming from the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, reinforcing that our own Milky Way has chomped on many of its neighbors over the years. Researchers made the find using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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Astronomers have long wondered why it is that the super-massive black hole in the center of our galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*, containing about 4 million times the mass of our Sun is relatively quiet.
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