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Our Milky Way, shown here in an artist's concept, has strange "waves" in its peripheral regions. New research indicates that these waves were caused by a collision with a dwarf galaxy called Antlia 2. (Credit: ESA) The Milky Way has probably collided with a recently discovered dwarf galaxy called Antlia 2 less than a billion years ago. The study was …

The Milky Way has probably collided with the newly discovered dwarf galaxy Antlia 2 less than a billion years ago. This was the result of a new study presented Wednesday at the 234th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. The research, led by Sukanya Chakrabarti of the Rochester Institute of Technology, supports a prediction that she made a decade ago …

Physicists solved a decade-long puzzle by describing how fast a particle can pass through a barrier. Particles can fly through seemingly insurmountable barriers like ghosts. For decades, physicists have wondered how long this so-called quantum tunneling takes. After a three-year investigation, an international team of theoretical physicists now has an answer. According to a new study, they measured a tunneling …

An ancient "untouched" Mayan ritual cave was discovered by chance by archaeologists in Mexico who were actually looking for a holy well. The cave is said to have been sealed for over 1,000 years and contains more than 150 ritual objects AP: Associated Press The cave was sealed for over 1,000 years. The ancient Mayan empire was in Central and …

Bright spots of light near a newborn star. Image: ESA / Hubble / NASA, K. Stapelfeldt By Mark Kaufman 2019-02-17 16:19: 53 UTC When a star is born, a chaotic light show follows. NASA's long-lived Hubble Space Telescope has captured living bright lumps moving through the cosmos about 1,000 light years away from Earth. The Space Agency called these objects …

A ghostly green spot is expected to become brighter in the coming days near Orion as the Comet 46P / Wirtanen gets closer to Earth this weekend in 20 years. This fuzzy visitor of ice and rock, just bright enough to be seen with the naked eye, will be well visible by the end of December. NASA has even sponsored …

A beautiful composite image of the North Pole of the Sun created from photographs taken by the European Space Agency's Proba-2 satellite. Proba-2 launched in 2009 to watch the space weather. Credit: ESA / Royal Observatory of Belgium When winter falls on the northern hemisphere, like so many dinner guests on a plate of latkes, it's a good time to …

One or two ghostly dust satellites can orbit the Earth, according to a new study based on a 60-year-old idea. Massive objects attract by gravity. However, if you have several large objects with just the right mass, their mutual gravitational field can cause anomalies – such as gravity points that can keep things stable. Scientists have found objects orbiting in …

Just in time for Halloween, NASA / ESA's Hubble Space Telescope has released a new, highly detailed picture of IC 63, located 550 light-years from Earth in Cassiopeia the Queen, sometimes referred to as Ghost Nebula or Ghost by Cassiopeia , The fog hanging near the bright star Gamma [γ] Cassiopeiae (the central point in the W-shape of the constellation) …

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