Scientists say the Milky Way is the color of snow. According to a group of scientists at the 219th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, the Milky Way is white. Actually, no, it has the same spectrum of...
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In recent years, astronomers have discovered that the Swan Nebula is one of the youngest and most massive star in the Milky Way.The Swan Nebula Star, illuminating the sky at night with its dust composition and gas,...
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"2007-12-07: I saw Comet Holmes again the night before last, one of the few clear nights during this cloudy late autumn near Erie’s southern shore. Being far enough from city lights to see the milk of the Milky...
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2007-11-30: Yesterday NASA and the European Space Agency released a nice picture of galaxy M74 composed from data taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2003 & 2005.x40 The galaxy is in Pisces, about 32...
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Purportedly, "new" evidence from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) project suggests our solar system may actually be from the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy, and that this is the cause of Earth's global...
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