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There Aren’t Many Galaxies Like The Milky Way Nearby. Now We Know Why
The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, maybe even a grand design spiral galaxy. We can't be sure from…
We Might Be Able to Measure Dark Energy Through the Milky Way's Collision With Andromeda
The Milky Way and Andromeda are set to collide in a few billion years but are still over two million…
Hubble Sees an Epic Merger of Three Galaxies
When is 50,000 light-years only a small distance? When three galaxies are that close to one another. At that range,…
Meet Our Neighbour, The Local Void. Gaze Into It, Puny Humans.
Our planet is part of the larger structure of the Solar System, shaped and made stable by the force of…
Check out this Amazing Picture of the Triangulum Galaxy by Hubble.
To the unaided eye, the Triangulum Galaxy is just a smudge in the night sky. But it's a smudge that…
What are Magellanic Clouds?
Beyond the Milky Way Galaxy lies the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, two bundles of stars and dust that orbit…
What Are Cosmic Voids?
We talked about the biggest structures in the Universe, but what about the opposite? The biggest empty spaces in the…
What Is The Biggest Thing in The Universe?
Think big. Really big. Like, cosmic big. How big can things in the Universe get? Is a galaxy big? What…
10 Interesting Facts About the Milky Way
The Milky Way Galaxy is an immense and very interesting place. Not only does it measure some 120,000–180,000 light-years in…
How Giant Galaxies Bind The Milky Way’s Neighborhood With Gravity
Is it stretching it too far to think of a Lord of the Rings-esque "Entmoot" when reading the phrase "Council…