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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 ...

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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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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.

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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 ...

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

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland manages the program for the Science Mission Directorate in Washington. For more information on the ...

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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 Space ...

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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 ...

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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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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NASA Telescopes Find Clues For How Giant Black Holes Formed So Quickly

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Scientists believe a supermassive black hole lies in the center of nearly all large galaxies, including our own Milky Way. They have found that some of these ...

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

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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 ...

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Hubble Shows Farthest Lensing Galaxy Yields Clues to Early Universe - 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 ...

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NASA's Hubble Finds Dwarf Galaxies Formed More Than Their Fair Share of Universe's Stars

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It is unusual to find a galaxy in a state of starburst, which suggests to researchers starburst galaxies are the result of an unusual incident in the past, such ...

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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 ...

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

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

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

NASA Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy

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

Hubble Watches Stars' Clockwork Motion In Nearby Galaxy - NASA

NASA Selects Gamma-ray Telescope to Chart Milky Way Evolution

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

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

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

NASA'S SOFIA Investigates the Southern Sky from New Zealand

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

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