The Magellanic Clouds Both the LMC and SMC were named after the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) who mistakenly believed they were clouds. While […]
Category: Galaxy Mystery
The Dark Side
The Dark Side The mysterious dark matter is believed to consist of exotic non-atomic particles that do not interact with electromagnetic radiation. […]
Galaxy Scale Fountain Seen In Full Glory
Galaxy Scale Fountain Seen In Full Glory According to the scientists who observed the galaxy-scale fountain in all of its […]
Solar Nursery
Solar Nursery Our Solar System emerged from mixed fragments composed of lingering relics from the long-dead, nuclear-fusing furnaces of older […]
A Big Starlit Smile
A Big Starlit Smile Galaxies like our Milky Way, are gravitationally bound systems composed of stars, interstellar gas, dust, stellar […]
A Galactic Dance In Spacetime
The galaxies that trip the light fantastic in Spacetime are usually members of groups, clusters, and superclusters–with groups being considerably […]
‘Oumuamua’s Mysterious Parent-Star
Searching For ‘Oumuamua’s Mysterious Parent-Star But what about the stars that ‘Oumuamua met up with while it was enroute to our Solar System? Could their combined […]
A Galaxy Eat Galaxy Universe
The new study is published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (U.K.), and it sheds new light into the […]
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