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Earth’s Orbit Around the Milky Way May Have Bombarded It With Meteors and Shaped Our Planet’s Geology

Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms ...

Could the Sun’s Orbit Shape Evolution?

The sun is located about 26,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy, aka the Milky Way, and its orbit is close to ...

Giant, mysterious rippling wave detected in Milky Way by Gaia Telescope

For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.
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Astronomers capture a massive wave rippling across our Milky Way galaxy

A colossal wave is rolling through the Milky Way’s stars, mapped by ESA’s Gaia telescope and reshaping our understanding of ...

Scientists Discover a Giant, Unexplained Wave Rippling Through the Milky Way

The Milky Way ripples like a vast cosmic wave. Gaia’s precise measurements reveal a colossal motion sweeping through the ...
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Peculiar Glow In The Milky Way Might Be Dark Matter Signature

Looking towards the central region of the Milky Way, there is an unexpected surplus in the most powerful light that exists: ...
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Data From Dead Space Telescope Shows Huge Wave Washing Over Stars in the Milky Way Galaxy

A team of scientists from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Italy, led by astronomer Eloisa Poggio, looked ...
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Planetary Census: Hundreds of Billions in the Milky Way?

It wasn’t all that many years ago that you could go to a major astronomy meeting and hear the latest news about galaxies and supernovas and quasars and the Big Bang — but nothing at all about planets ...