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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

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NASA's Swift Catches X-ray Action at Milky Way's Center

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Recent observations by NASA's Swift spacecraft have provided scientists a unique glimpse into the activity at the center of our galaxy and led to the. January 8, 2014

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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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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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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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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 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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NASA Selects Gamma-ray Telescope to Chart Milky Way Evolution

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The Cosmic Background Explorer, another NASA Explorer mission, led to a Nobel Prize in 2006 for its principal investigators. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ... October 18, 2021

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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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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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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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NASA’s Chandra Observatory Finds Cosmic Showers Halt Galaxy Growth - NASA

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“We can say that a typical weather forecast for the center of a massive galaxy is this: cloudy with a chance of heat from a huge black hole,” said co-author ... March 4, 2015

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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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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 Science On Display At American Astronomical Society Meeting

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Scientists will make the first public presentation of a new mosaic image of the center of the Milky Way galaxy from the Hubble Space Telescope. Participants ... June 6, 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 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'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 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 Observatory Catches Giant Black Hole Rejecting Material

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... center of the Milky Way Galaxy is extraordinarily faint in X-rays. This discovery holds important implications for understanding black holes. New Chandra ... August 29, 2013

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

NASA's Swift Catches X-ray Action at Milky Way's Center

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

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

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

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

NASA Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy

NASA Selects Gamma-ray Telescope to Chart Milky Way Evolution

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

Hubble Watches Stars' Clockwork Motion In Nearby Galaxy - NASA

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

NASA’s Chandra Observatory Finds Cosmic Showers Halt Galaxy Growth - NASA

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