A six-year search of space beyond the orbit of Neptune has netted 461 newly discovered objects. These extraordinarily distant objects might shed light on Planet Nine. A theoretical, never-observed body that might be hiding...
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The new 3D map developed by Tully and colleagues shows that the Milky Way galaxy resides in the outskirts of the Laniakea Supercluster, which is about 520 million light-years wide. The Supercluster is made up of about 100,000...
A pair of astronomers have found and categorised half a million new asteroids lurking in old data. Figuring out exactly where these objects came from could be crucial to understanding the early solar system. Alexey Sergeyev...
The Large Magellanic Cloud is about 40,000 light-years closer than the Small Magellanic Cloud and more than 2 million light-years closer than the Andromeda galaxy. The Magellanic Clouds were visible to early peoples in the...
The Milky Way got its name from the way it looks from the ground: like a streak of spilt milk across the sky. That hazy white band is made up of stars, dust and gas. It looks like a flat stripe because we are viewing it from...