A new low-frequency radio image offers the most comprehensive view yet of the Milky Way’s southern sky. Astronomers at the International Center of (ICRAR) have produced the most detailed low-frequency ...

Gravitational lensing (an effect that causes distant objects to be magnified or stretched by the gravity of a large object along their line of sight) is one of astronomers’ most useful observing tools ...

Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

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Astronomers have unveiled the most detailed low-frequency radio image of the Milky Way ever produced, an enormous patchwork ...

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A globular cluster near the heart of the Milky Way is gradually dissolving, according to a new study published on arXiv, revealing rare insights into how the Galactic bulge was built from ancient star ...