Mysterious Space Signal Traced Across the Universe to an Ancient Dead Galaxy
Astronomers have traced a mysterious fast radio burst to an unexpected place — an ancient, massive galaxy far removed from ...
First fast radio burst traced to old, dead, elliptical galaxy
For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical ...
Cosmological data suggest the universe has become 'messier and more complicated'
Across cosmic history, powerful forces have acted on matter, reshaping the universe into an increasingly complex web of ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
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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 the century since Hubble’s pioneering work, astronomers like me have learned that the universe is vast and contains trillions of galaxies ... Charles Messier also produced a catalog of ...