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NASA’s Chandra Detects Record-Breaking Outburst from Milky Way’s Black Hole - NASA

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Astronomers have observed the largest X-ray flare ever detected from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. January 5, 2015

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SOFIA Spots Recent Starbursts in the Milky Way Galaxy's Center - NASA

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SOFIA/FORCAST mid-infrared image of the Milky Way galaxy's nucleus showing the Circumnuclear Ring (CNR) of gas and dust clouds orbiting a central ... June 6, 2013

News Release - Page 672 of 928 - NASA

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On April 27, a blast of light from a dying star in a distant galaxy became the focus of astronomers… NASA Astronaut, Food Scientist Discuss Thanksgiving in ...

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NASA's Chandra Helps Confirm Evidence of Jet in Milky Way's Black Hole

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Astronomers have long sought strong evidence that Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, is producing a jet ... November 20, 2013

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Hubble Helps Find Smallest Known Galaxy Containing a Supermassive Black Hole - NASA

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... center of our Milky Way galaxy. It is inside one of the densest galaxies known to date — the M60-UCD1 dwarf galaxy that crams 140 million stars within a ... September 17, 2014

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NASA Selects Gamma-ray Telescope to Chart Milky Way Evolution

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the program for the agency. For more information about the Explorers Program, visit ... October 18, 2021

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NASA Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore conducts Hubble ... August 27, 2014

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Hubble Reveals First Pictures of Milky Way's Formative Years - NASA

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the first visual evidence of how our home galaxy, the Milky Way, assembled itself into the majestic pinwheel of. November 14, 2013

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Hubble Watches Stars' Clockwork Motion In Nearby Galaxy - NASA

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It takes our sun the same amount of time to complete a rotation around the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Hubble team — Roeland van der Marel of the ... February 18, 2014

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NASA's Spitzer Telescope Brings 360-Degree View of Galaxy to Our Fingertips

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Our galaxy is a flat spiral disk; our solar system sits in the outer one-third of the Milky Way, in one of its spiral arms. When we look toward the center of ... March 20, 2014

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NASA’s Hubble Finds Extremely Distant Galaxy Through Cosmic Magnifying Glass - NASA

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The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt ... October 16, 2014

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Oxymoronic Black Hole Provides Clues to Growth - NASA

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The smallest supermassive black hole ever detected in the center of a galaxy has been identified using observations with Chandra and the 6.5-meter Clay ... August 11, 2015

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NASA's NuSTAR Captures Possible 'Screams' from Zombie Stars

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The center of our Milky Way galaxy is bustling with young and old stars, smaller black holes and other varieties of stellar corpses – all swarming around a ... April 29, 2015

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Researchers Detail How a Distant Black Hole Devoured a Star - NASA

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... center of the Milky Way galaxy. As a star falls toward a black hole, it is ripped apart by intense tides. The gas is corralled into a disk that swirls ... August 24, 2011

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NASA Selects Mission to Study Churning Chaos in our Milky Way and Beyond

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... Way galaxy, witness the formation and destruction of star-forming clouds, and understand the dynamics and gas flow in the vicinity of the center of our galaxy. March 24, 2017

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NASA X-ray Telescopes Find Black Hole May Be a Neutrino Factory

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The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be producing mysterious particles called neutrinos. If confirmed, this would be the first time that. November 13, 2014

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NASA Hubble Team Finds Monster "El Gordo" Galaxy Cluster Bigger Than Thought

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore conducts Hubble ... April 3, 2014

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NASA'S SOFIA Airborne Observatory Views Star Forming Region W40

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... center. At least 50 percent of the stars in the Milky Way Galaxy formed in massive clusters of thousands of stars similar to W40. Evidence suggests that the ... June 6, 2013

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NASA'S Chandra Turns up Black Hole Bonanza in Galaxy Next Door

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... center of the galaxy. This also differentiates Andromeda from the Milky Way as astronomers have yet to find a similar black hole in one of the Milky Way's ... June 25, 2013

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NASA'S SOFIA Investigates the Southern Sky from New Zealand

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... center of our Milky Way galaxy, and two dwarf galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, which accompany the Milky Way. The Magellanic Clouds can be ... July 18, 2013

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NASA’s Chandra Detects Record-Breaking Outburst from Milky Way’s Black Hole - NASA

SOFIA Spots Recent Starbursts in the Milky Way Galaxy's Center - NASA

News Release - Page 672 of 928 - NASA

NASA's Chandra Helps Confirm Evidence of Jet in Milky Way's Black Hole

Hubble Helps Find Smallest Known Galaxy Containing a Supermassive Black Hole - NASA

NASA Selects Gamma-ray Telescope to Chart Milky Way Evolution

NASA Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy

Hubble Reveals First Pictures of Milky Way's Formative Years - NASA

Hubble Watches Stars' Clockwork Motion In Nearby Galaxy - NASA

NASA's Spitzer Telescope Brings 360-Degree View of Galaxy to Our Fingertips

NASA’s Hubble Finds Extremely Distant Galaxy Through Cosmic Magnifying Glass - NASA

Oxymoronic Black Hole Provides Clues to Growth - NASA

NASA's NuSTAR Captures Possible 'Screams' from Zombie Stars