The Earth sits in a 1,000 light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars, but how did those stars form? “This is really an origin story; for the first time we can explain how all nearby ...

High in the Milky Way, a dying giant has thrown astronomers a cosmic curveball. A star known as DFK 52, sitting in the massive Stephenson 2 cluster about 19,000 light-years away, has been caught ...

Astronomers have observed the detailed motions of giant gas bubbles on the surface of a nearby star for the first time, which rise and fall like the inside of a lava lamp. The massive hot gas bubbles ...

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A huge gas bubble is swirling around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole at almost a third of the speed of light, reveals a study. As big as the planet Mercury, it completes a full circle in just ...

The Milky Way is blowing bubbles. Two giant radio bubbles, extending out from the galaxy for over 1,400 light years, were just discovered in X-ray data. Astronomers think the bubbles started forming a ...

The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars — but how did those stars form? In a paper appearing Wednesday in Nature, astronomers at the Center for ...

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