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Raining photons

Fernando Oliveira de Menezes from São Paulo, Brazil The Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds lie above a solitary figure in ...
They slip through your skin, your walls, and the whole Earth without leaving a mark. Neutrinos earn the nickname “ghost ...
New radio observations of the Milky Way are exposing hidden patterns in its magnetic field. People have scanned the night sky ...
A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...
Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...
Deep Space Station 15, one of the 112-foot antennas at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California, looks skyward, with the stars of the Milky Way overhead, in September ...
Scientists are mapping the Milky Way galaxy’s invisible magnetic field, revealing how it holds the galaxy together and ...
A team of astronomers based at the European Space Agency demonstrated how artificial intelligence technology will alter existing methods of locating rare astronomical phenomena within our galaxy, the ...
Stargazing dreams come true at this Pennsylvania park, with pitch-dark skies that reveal the Milky Way in stunning detail.
Scientists report the first confirmed detection of thiepine, a complex sulfur-bearing molecule, in an interstellar cloud near the Milky Way’s center.
The vast "sheet" of dark matter could explain why almost all of our galactic neighbors are running away from us.
A UBC Okanagan-led research project has given a group of international scientists their clearest view yet of the Milky Way's magnetic field, revealing that it is far more complex than previously ...