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Planck Reveals Giant Dust Structures in our Local Neighborhood
Dust has never looked so beautiful! This new image from the Planck spacecraft shows giant filaments of cold dust stretching…
Second-Generation Star Supports Cannibal Theory of Milky Way
[/caption] A newly discovered red giant star is a relic from the early universe -- a star that may have…
Alien Star Clusters Are Invading the Milky Way
[/caption] We're being invaded! About one-fourth of the star clusters in our galaxy are actually invaders from other galaxies, according…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Don’t Make a Meal of It
You should always put out the old dinner set when you have astronomers around. It all starts innocently enough with…
If the Earth is Rare, We May Not Hear from ET
[/caption] If civilization-forming intelligent life is rare in our Milky Way galaxy, chances are we won't hear from ET before…
Intergalactic Connection is Older, Longer than Thought
Our galaxy has a streamer, though it's not like the ones you had on your bike as a kid: this…
Stellar Escapees Await Detection
[/caption] The structure of the Universe and the formation of stars from concentrated dust leads them to be clumped into…
Get the Big Picture of the Milky Way at the Adler Planetarium
[/caption] Astronomy is all about getting the big picture of our place in the cosmos, but some pictures are bigger…
Astronomers Dig Up Relic of the Milky Way’s Central Bulge
[/caption] Like archaeologists who dig through the layers of dirt to unearth crucial pieces of the history of mankind, astronomers…