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- UNDATED PHOTO - The Rose Center of Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History in N..

Science Jun 03

Accidental discovery at New York planetarium unlocks secret into universe’s inner workings

By Adithi Ramakrishnan, Associated Press

Science Jun 13

Milky Way at Mount Olympus
European ‘star survey’ reveals celestial treasure trove

The new data includes new information such as the age, mass, temperature and chemical composition of stars.

By Frank Jordans, Associated Press

Science May 11

First image of our black hole
WATCH: Here’s the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy

The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy.

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

Science Aug 01

The Milky Way over the Warsaw Telescope. Cepheid stars found by OGLE and used to determine the galaxy's warped shape are shown as yellow dots in the sky. Image by K. Ulaczyk / J. Skowron / OGLE
New 3D maps of the Milky Way confirm our galaxy is warped

It turns out our Milky Way galaxy isn't the flat spiral disk we thought it was before -- dark matter or collisions with other galaxies could have twisted it out of shape.

By Vicky Stein

Science Apr 26

The map shows the total brightness and color of nearly 1.7 billion stars in the Milky Way observed by ESA's Gaia satellite between July 2014 and May 2016. Photo by ESA/Gaia/DPAC
This stunning map of the Milky Way pinpoints more than 1 billion stars

The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has released a catalog, the most detailed to date, of more than 1.5 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

By Lee Billings, Scientific American

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