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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number of faint stars. For the next 300 years, astronomers assumed that the ...
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Telescopes spy a monster radio jet streaming from a bright and early object in the universe
At double the width of our Milky Way galaxy, this jet of radio waves is ... Observatories across Europe and in Hawaii and Texas contributed to the study appearing in the Astrophysical Journal ...
Researchers find largest black hole jet from early universe
Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...
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See The Milky Way Galaxy's Warp In This Animation
Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...