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Introduction. To the Universe

Current status of the deep space network

About the Deep Space Network: Space Communications and Navigation

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NASA's Digital Orrery

MAST: Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes

The map of the Universe from the Milky Way to the edge of what can be seen

Johns Hopkins University (JHU) continues to pad its space community résumé with their interactive map, “The map of the observable Universe”, that takes viewers on a 13.7-billion-year-old tour of the cosmos from the present to the moments after the Big Bang. While JHU is responsible for creating the site, additional contributions were made by NASA, the European Space Agency, the National Science Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation.

JWST's weekly observing schedule:

NASA's Unverse of Learning
An Integrated AstroPhisics STEM Learning and Literacy program

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Interstellar Colonization

Today we look at the subject of Interstellar Colonization, from the ship concepts and propulsion methods all the way to intergalactic colonization. Support the Channel on Patreon: Listen or Download the audio of this episode from Soundcloud:

Becoming an Interstellar Species

: The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership As we move into space we prepare not just to settle the Moon and Mars, but stretch our reach out to other stars and settle the galaxy, becoming an interstellar species. See the SFIA Episode Listing: Visit our Website: Support us on Patreon: SFIA Merchandise available: Facebook Group: Reddit: on Twitter and RT our future content. Twitter: SFIA Discord Server: Listen or Download the audio of this episode from Soundcloud: Episode's Audio-only version: Episode's Narration-only version: Credits: Becoming an Interstellar Species Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur Episode 271; December 31, 2020 Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur Editors: Darius Said Matthew Campbell Jason Burbank Keith Blockus Cover Art: Jakub Grygier Graphics: Bryan Versteeg Jeremy Jozwik Ken York of YD Visual LegionTech Studios Sam McNamara of Rapid ThrashSergio Botero Udo Schroeter Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound

Intergalactic Voyages

Far beyond our Moon and Mars and the other planets is our greater galaxy and its billions and billions of stars. And yet it is but a flyspeck compared to the enormity of the Universe beyond. Could we every voyage to these distant galaxies? Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: Watch my exclusive video on Conformal Cyclic Cosmology: Join the National Space Society: Carnegie Science Center: Visit our Website: Join Nebula: Support us on Patreon: Support us on Subscribestar: Facebook Group: Reddit: on Twitter and RT our future content: : SFIA Discord Server Credits: Intergalactic Voyages Episode 385, March 9, 2023 Produced, Written & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Editors: Darius Said David McFarlane Briana Brownell Graphics by: Jeremy Jozwik Ken York LegionTech Studios Music Courtesy of Markus Junnikkala, "Always Tell Me The Odds" Sergey Cheremisinov, "Sirius", "The Signals" Stellardrone, "Red Giant", "Between the Rings", Miguel Johsnon, "Far From Home", "So Many Stars" Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran"

The Most Breathtaking Sights In Our Galaxy [4K] | Cosmic Vistas [Season 1 All Episodes] | Spark

00:00:00 Windows to Other Worlds - Fountain of Creation 00:26:04 Rocky Shores - Silent Partner 00:52:12 Borderland - Red Dawn 01:18:17 Lords of Gravity - Outer Limits 01:44:01 Hidden Havens - Icy Gems 02:09:58 Shooting Gallery - Galactic Visions A compilation of the best 'Cosmic Vistas' episodes from Season 1 featuring unparalleled views of the sun, planets, and distant worlds now in 4K. Cutting-edge scientific thinking and incredible imagery provide a brand new perspective on the cosmos. -- Subscribe to Spark for more amazing science, tech & engineering videos: Find us on: Facebook: Instagram: This documentary was produced in 2009. Content licensed from Blue Ant International to Little Dot Studios. Any queries, please contact us at: #CosmicVistas #Space #SecretsOfTheUniverse

Stuart Talbott: Alignments in the Cosmos | Thunderbolts

One of the most beautiful words in the English language is..."Alignment"...it denotes a sense of connection, agreement, unity and oneness. Alignments occur between celestial objects separated by unfathomable cosmic distances which prove there is a communication among these objects—while there is NO explanation of alignment relationships in the Standard Model of Cosmology. As we gaze deeper into the cosmos with ever increasing detail—witness the Webb Telescope—alignments are being observed at the scale of galactic super clusters. Mainstream science is being pulled into the next era of understanding with new undeniable discoveries—which validate the tenets of the Electric Universe Model of Cosmology. Independent researcher Stuart Talbott ponders not just scientifically but also philosophically, that our Universe is neither empty nor disconnected, a fact that cosmic alignments continue to confirm. If you see a CC with this video, it means that subtitles are available. To find out which ones, click on the Gear Icon in the lower right area of the video box and click on “subtitles” in the drop-down box. Then click on the subtitle that you would like. The Thunderbolts Project — a Voice for the Electric Universe Become a Producer through the PATREON Rewards program... Subscribe to Thunderbolts eNewsletter Guides to the Electric Universe Electric Universe Books & Merch Electric Universe by Wal Thornhill Facebook Twitter @tboltsproject Ideas and/or concepts presented in this program do not necessarily express or represent the Electric Universe model or the views of The Thunderbolts Project or T-Bolts Group Inc. The Thunderbolts Project™ Trademark of T-Bolts Group Inc. a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Copyright © 2022 T-Bolts Group Inc. All rights reserved. -- If you see a CC with this video, it means that subtitles are available. To find out which ones, click on the Gear Icon in the lower right area of the video box and click on “subtitles” in the drop-down box. Then click on the subtitle that you would like.

Daily News about The Galaxies


Daily News about Galaxies


the sounds of the Universe

Ian Bennett Published on Sep 2, 2012

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Information on the Universe.

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Information on the Evolution of the universe.

Information on Life in the Universe.

The map of the Universe from the Milky Way to the edge of what can be seen

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Intergalactic Colonization

We often discuss the notion of settling the galaxy but do we need to stop there? This episode will examine the additional difficulties with traveling between galaxies and ask just how far we might be able to journey even without faster than light travel. Visit our Website: Join the Facebook Group: Support the Channel on Patreon: To help us grow your SFIA community, follow on Twitter and RT our future content. Visit the sub-reddit: Listen or Download the audio of this episode from Soundcloud: Cover Art by Jakub Grygier: Graphics Team: Edward Nardella Jeremy Jozwik Jarred Eagley Justin Dixon Jeremy Jozwik Katie Byrne Kris Holland/Mafic Studios: http://www.maficstudios.com Luuk Warringa Misho Yordanov Murat Mamkegh Nick Talmers Nieuwoudt Pierre Demet Sergio Botero Stefan Blandin Script Editing: Andy Popescu Connor Hogan Edward Nardella Eustratius Graham Gregory Leal Jefferson Eagley Keith Blockus Luca de Rosa Mark Warburton Michael Gusevsky Mitch Armstrong MolbOrg Naomi Kern Philip Baldock Sigmund Kopperud Steve Cardon Tiffany Penner Music Markus Junnikkala, "Always tell me the odds" Kai Engel, "Endless Story about Sun and Moon" A.J. Prasad, "Cold Shadow" Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran" Sergey Cheremisinov, "Labyrinth" Markus Junnikkala, "Memory of Earth Brandow Liew, "Into the Storm"

Life Beyond the Universe. Journey into Outer Space [Documentary 2022]

● Music from videos. ● You become a regular listener of the radio station: EvilspaceFM (24/7) ● Access to exclusive content and articles. ● New videos, where I talk about everything interesting. (Copyright) ● Serial. Iitana and Roin's adventure continues. New series are available only to sponsors. ● Art for the desktop. ● Prize drawings among the participants. To do this, you need to become a sponsor of the channel, or join Patrion: Evil Space Patreon Page ♺ ANIMATION: __________________________________ Egor Demin: Darth Biomech Fish tree Ken York of YD Visual Kristiityan Tavkar Chris Holland (Mafic Studios) LegionTech Studio Kris Holland of Mafic Stufios: Sergio Boterio Bryan Versteeg Andrew Carter Animation: Atmospherical Beings | Cinematic Renderings of Unreal Engine 4 VR Environment Keith Carson, Jarred Eagley, Udo Schroeter, Mihail Yordanov, Katie Byrne, Edward Nardella, Jarred Eagley, Justin Dixon, Misho Yordanov, Pierre Demet. Stefan Blandin. ♺ SOURCES:


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Some observatories, Observing the Universe!

The Square Kilometer Telescope proposal

The Atacama Large Millimeter/Sub-millineter Array (ALMA).

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Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

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ASTRONOMERS START MAPPING THE STRUCTURE OF THE FAR SIDE OF THE MILKY WAY

Artist's impression of the spiral structure of the Milky Way with two major stellar arms and a bar. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESO/R. Hurt

Artist�s view of the Milky Way with the location of the Sun and the star forming region at the opposite side in the Scutum-Centaurus spiral arm. Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF; Robert Hurt, NASA.


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Traveling to the Stars!!!!!!

Mission to the Universe from Space plasma.com

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Interstellar Colonization

Today we look at the subject of Interstellar Colonization, from the ship concepts and propulsion methods all the way to intergalactic colonization. Support the Channel on Patreon: Listen or Download the audio of this episode from Soundcloud:

The ship from the movie INTERSTELLAR

Here's what we would have to do to reach a star in less than a hundred years.
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Going Interstellar

Published on Feb 11, 2016 Imagine getting to Mars in just 3 days� or putting points beyond our solar system within our reach. New propulsion technologies could one day take us to these cosmic destinations making space travel truly interstellar! NASA 360 joins Professor Philip Lubin, University of California Santa Barbara, as he discusses his NASA Innovative Advanced Concept (NIAC) for energy propulsion for interstellar exploration. To view "A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight" (cited in the video) visit: This video was developed from a live recording at the 2015 NIAC Fall Symposium in October, 2015. To watch the full original talk please visit: This video represents a research study within the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. NIAC is a visionary and far-reaching aerospace program, one that has the potential to create breakthrough technologies for possible future space missions. However, such early stage technology development may never become actual NASA missions. For more information about NIAC, visit: Category People & Blogs License Standard YouTube License

A Proposal for an Instellar Spaceship

Image: A Bussard ramjet in flight, as imagined for ESA’s Innovative Technologies from Science Fiction project. Credit: ESA/Manchu.

A new Technique Could use Quasars to Directly Measure the Expansion Rate of the Universe

One of the biggest challenges to measuring the expansion of the universe is the fact that many of the methods we use are model-dependent. The most famous example is the use of distant supernovae, where we compare the standard brightness of a Type Ia supernova with their apparent brightness to find their distance. But knowing the standard brightness depends upon comparing them to the brightness of Cepheid variables which is in turn determined by measuring the distances of nearby stars via parallax. Every step of this cosmic distance ladder depends upon the step before it.

Various methods of cosmic distance measure. Credit: Wikipedia user Brews O’Hare

Gravitational lensing can make one quasar create many images. Credit: NASA/ESA/D. Player (STScI)

The broadening of spectral lines. Credit: Swinburne University of Technology


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One of the Brightest Star-Forming Regions in the Milky Way, Seen in Infrared

Certain parts of the galaxy are more magical than others. There are barren wastelands where barely a particle strays through occasionally, and there are fantastical nebulae that can literally light up the sky. But beyond their good looks, those nebulae hold secrets to understanding some of the most important features of any galaxy – stars. Now, for the first time, a team from the University of Maryland managed to capture a high resolution image of one of the most active star-forming regions in our part of the galaxy. Data from that image are not only spectacular, but can illuminate the details of the star formation process.

Hubble image of a starforming nebula with the 747 housing SOFIA in the foreground. Credit – Marc Pound / UMD

How Do Stars Form?

We owe our entire existence to the Sun. Well, it and the other stars that came before. As they died, they donated the heavier elements we need for life. But how did they form? Stars begin as vast clouds of cold molecular hydrogen and helium left over from the Big Bang. These vast clouds can be hundreds of light years across and contain the raw material for thousands or even millions of times the mass of our Sun. In addition to the hydrogen, these clouds are seeded with heavier elements from the stars that lived and died long ago. They're held in balance between their inward force of gravity and the outward pressure of the molecules. Eventually some kick overcomes this balance and causes the cloud to begin collapsing. That kick could come from a nearby supernova explosion, collision with another gas cloud, or the pressure wave of a galaxy's spiral arms passing through the region. As this cloud collapses, it breaks into smaller and smaller clumps, until there are knots with roughly the mass of a star. As these regions heat up, they prevent further material from falling inward. At the center of these clumps, the material begins to increase in heat and density. When the outward pressure balances against the force of gravity pulling it in, a protostar is formed. What happens next depends on the amount of material. Some objects don't accumulate enough mass for stellar ignition and become brown dwarfs - substellar objects not unlike a really big Jupiter, which slowly cool down over billions of years. If a star has enough material, it can generate enough pressure and temperature at its core to begin deuterium fusion - a heavier isotope of hydrogen. This slows the collapse and prepares the star to enter the true main sequence phase. This is the stage that our own Sun is in, and begins when hydrogen fusion begins. If a protostar contains the mass of our Sun, or less, it undergoes a proton-proton chain reaction to convert hydrogen to helium. But if the star has about 1.3 times the mass of the Sun, it undergoes a carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle to convert hydrogen to helium. How long this newly formed star will last depends on its mass and how quickly it consumes hydrogen. Small red dwarf stars can last hundreds of billions of years, while large supergiants can consume their hydrogen within a few million years and detonate as supernovae. But how do stars explode and seed their elements around the Universe? That's another episode.

Hubble view of the huge star formation region N11 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain).


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Black Holes and Dense stars in the Universe

Black Hole Infographic

10 Amazing Facts About Black Holes by Elizabeth Howell on January 22, 2015

An artists illustration of the central engine of a Quasar.
These ?Quasi-stellar Objects? QSOs are now recognized as the super massive black holes
at the center of emerging galaxies in the early Universe. (Photo Credit: NASA)
Imagine matter packed so densely that nothing can escape. Not a moon, not a planet and not even light.
That?s what black holes are ? a spot where gravity?s pull is huge, ending up being dangerous for anything that accidentally strays by.

Black Holes

Computer-Simulated Image of a Supermassive Black Hole

This computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy.
The black region in the center represents the black hole�s event horizon, where no light can escape the massive object�s gravitational grip.
The black hole�s powerful gravity distorts space around it like a funhouse mirror. Light from background stars is stretched and smeared
as the stars skim by the black hole. Astronomers have uncovered a near-record breaking supermassive black hole, weighing 17 billion suns,
in an unlikely place: in the center of a galaxy in a sparsely populated area of the universe.
The observations, made by NASA�s Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Telescope in Hawaii, may
indicate that these monster objects may be more common than once thought.

Inside the heart of a Hellish Neutron Star

Stellar Evolutiuon

Saved from Harvard University Carol Tavares saved to The Universe Stellar Evolution Infographic: The rate of evolution and the ultimate fate of a star depends on its mass. (Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)

THIS IS THE SURFACE OF A GIANT STAR, 350 TIMES LARGER THAN THE SUN

This artist�s impression shows the red supergiant star. Using ESO�s Very Large Telescope Interferometer, an international team of astronomers have constructed the most detailed image ever of this, or any star other than the Sun. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

Artist�s impression of the Earth scorched by our Sun as it enters its Red Giant Branch phase. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Fsgregs

An illustration of the structure of the Sun and a red giant star, showing their convective zones. These are the granular zones in the outer layers of the stars. Credit: ESO


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FAST RADIO BURSTS!!!!!!!!!!!!

MISSING MATTER FOUND! FAST RADIO BURSTS CONFIRM COSMOLOGICAL MODEL

Researchers at the CSIRO have managed to pinpoint the location of an FRB for the first time, yielding valuable information about our universe. Credit:

Image showing the field of view of the Parkes radio telescope (left) and zoom-ins on the area where the signal came from (left).
Credit: D. Kaplan (UWM), E. F. Keane (SKAO).

Redshift occurs as a result of an object moving away at relativistic speeds (a portion of the speed of light).
For decades, scientists have been using it to determine how fast other galaxies are moving away from our own,
and hence the rate of expansion of the Universe. Relying on optical data obtained by the Subaru telescope,
the CSIRO team was able to obtain both the dispersion and the redshift data from this signal.

A fast radio burst detected in 2012 by the Arecibo Observatory has scientists searching for its source.
Credit and Copyright: Danielle Futselaar

The NSF�s Arecibo Observatory, which is located in Puerto Rico, is the world's second largest radio telescope Credit: NAIC

The Parkes Telescope in New South Wales, Australia. Credit: Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis

Artists impression of the SKA-mid dishes in Africa shows how they may eventually look when completed. Credit:

Radio signals converted to sounds from Space!


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G A L A X I E S !!!!!

GALAXIES INFOGRAPHICS

Largest-ever map of 56,000 galaxies is demystifying the universe's expansion

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A map of the sky shows Cosmicflows-4's 56,000 galaxies. (Image credit: University of Hawaii)

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We often discuss the notion of settling the galaxy but do we need to stop there? This episode will examine the additional difficulties with traveling between galaxies and ask just how far we might be able to journey even without faster than light travel. : Visit the sub-reddit Sign up to my weekly email newsletter: Support us at:Support us at: Follow us on Tumblr: More stories at Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: Instagram - Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / frasercain@gmail.com /Karla Thompson - @karlaii Chad Weber - Chloe Cain - Instagram: @chloegwen2001 Music: Left Spine Down - “X-Ray” Graphics Team: Edward Nardella Jeremy Jozwik Jarred Eagley Justin Dixon Jeremy Jozwik Katie Byrne Kris Holland/Mafic Studios: Luuk Warringa Misho Yordanov Murat Mamkegh Nick Talmers Nieuwoudt Pierre Demet Sergio Botero Stefan Blandin Script Editing: Andy Popescu Connor Hogan Edward Nardella Eustratius Graham Gregory Leal Jefferson Eagley Keith Blockus Luca de Rosa Mark Warburton Michael Gusevsky Mitch Armstrong MolbOrg Naomi Kern Philip Baldock Sigmund Kopperud Steve Cardon Tiffany Penner Music Markus Junnikkala, "Always tell me the odds" Kai Engel, "Endless Story about Sun and Moon" A.J. Prasad, "Cold Shadow" Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran" Sergey Cheremisinov, "Labyrinth" Markus Junnikkala, "Memory of Earth Brandow Liew, "Into the Storm"

Warp into a stellar nursey 3,000 light years away


The Party's Over for These Youthful Compact Galaxies

ABOUT THIS IMAGE: This graphic illustrates how a vibrant, star-forming galaxy quickly transforms
into a sedate galaxy composed of old stars. The scenario begins when two galaxies merge
(Panel 1),funneling a large amount of gas into the central region. The gas compresses, sparking a firestorm of star birth,
(Panel 2) which blows out most of the remaining star-forming gas
.(Panel 3). Devoid of its fuel, the galaxy settles into a quiet existence, composed of aging stars Image Type: Illustration Illustration Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI) Science Credit: P. Sell (Texas Tech University)

The Largest Galaxy in the Universe: IC 1101

NASA�s Fermi finds hints of gamma-ray cycle in active galaxy

Fermi observations suggest possible years-long cyclic changes in gamma-ray emission from the blazar PG 1553+113.
The graph shows Fermi Large Area Telescope data from August 2008 to July 2015 for gamma rays with energies above 100 million electron volts (MeV).
For comparison, visible light ranges between 2 and 3 electron volts. Vertical lines on data points are error bars.
Background: One possible explanation for the gamma-ray cycle is an oscillation of the jet produced by the gravitational pull
of a second massive black hole, seen at top left in this artist�s rendering.
Image credits: NASA�s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab.

A NEW SURVEY TAKES THE HUBBLE DEEP FIELD TO THE NEXT LEVEL,
ANALYZING DISTANCE AND PROPERTIES OF 1,600 GALAXIES

Images from the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF). Credit: NASA/ESA/S. Beckwith (STScI)/HUDF Team

This video gives a close-up view of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field region, a tiny but much-studied region in the constellation of Fornax, as observed with the MUSE instrument on ESO�s Very Large Telescope. But this rich and colourful picture only gives a very partial view of the power of the MUSE data, which also provide a spectrum for each pixel in the picture. This data set has allowed astronomers not only to measure distances for far more of these galaxies than before � a total of 1600 � but also to find out much more about each of them. Surprisingly 72 new galaxies were found that had eluded deep imaging with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. More information and download options:

Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO�s Very Large Telescope in Chile have conducted the deepest spectroscopic survey ever. They focused on the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, measuring distances and properties of 1600 very faint galaxies including 72 galaxies that have never been detected before, even by Hubble itself. This wealth of new information is giving astronomers insight into star formation in the early Universe, and allows them to study the motions and other properties of early galaxies � made possible by MUSE�s unique spectroscopic capabilities. This short ESOcast Light gives a quick overview of this important data set. More information and download options: Subscribe to ESOcast in iTunes! Receive future episodes on YouTube by pressing the Subscribe button above or follow us on Vimeo: Watch more ESOcast episodes: :Find out how to view and contribute subtitles for the ESOcast in multiple languages, or translate this video on YouTube Credit: ESO Editing: Nico Bartmann Web and technical support: Mathias Andr� and Raquel Yumi Shida Written by: Rosa Jesse, Nicole Shearer and Richard Hook Music: Music written and performed by: tonelabs Footage and photos: ESO, Mark Swinbank, Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham University, M. Fumagalli, L. Cal�ada, MUSE HUDF collaboration Directed by: Nico Bartmann Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen Category Science & Technology License Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) SHOW LESS

NEW MAP SHOWS THE MOTION OF ALL THE GALAXIES IN OUR SUPERCLUSTER

A mosaic of telescopic images showing the galaxies of the Virgo Supercluster. Credit: NASA/Rogelio Bernal Andreo

Orbits of galaxies in the Local Supercluster. Credit: Brent Tully.

There's a strange place in the sky where everything is attracted. And unfortunately, it's on the other side of the Milky Way, so we can't see it. What could be doing all this attracting?

Superclusters � regions of space that are densely packed with galaxies � are the biggest structures in the Universe. But scientists have struggled to define exactly where one supercluster ends and another begins. Now, a team based in Hawaii has come up with a new technique that maps the Universe according to the flow of galaxies across space. Redrawing the boundaries of the cosmic map, they redefine our home supercluster and name it Laniakea, which means �immeasurable heaven� in Hawaiian. : Read the research paper Read Nature's news story: Category Science & Technology License Standard YouTube License SHOW LESS

The galaxy clusters Abell 2744, MACS J0416.1-2403, MACS J0717.5+3745, MACS J1149.5+2223, Abell S1063, Abell 370. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, and the HFF team

Images of the MACS J0416.1�2403 and Abell 2744 galaxy clusters, taken as part of the Hubble Frontier Fields program. Credit: NASA/ESA/HST Frontier Fields team (STScI)

GAIA LOOKS BEYOND OUR GALAXY TO OTHER ISLANDS OF STARS

Color view of M31 (The Andromeda Galaxy), with M32 (a satellite galaxy) shown to the lower left. Credit and copyright: Terry Hancock.

Gaia�s view of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Click here for further details, full credits, and larger versions of the image. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC

Gaia�s view of the Andromeda galaxy. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC

New Research Reveals How Galaxies Stay Hot and Bothered

It�s relatively easy for galaxies to make stars. Start out with a bunch of random blobs of gas and dust. Typically those blobs will be pretty warm. To turn them into stars, you have to cool them off. By dumping all their heat in the form of radiation, they can compress. Dump more heat, compress more. Repeat for a million years or so.

This composite image shows the central regions of the nearby Circinus galaxy, located about 12 million light years away. Data from NASA�s Chandra X-ray Observatory is shown in blue and data from the Hubble Space telescope is shown in yellow, red, cyan, and light blue.

The Awesome Power of the Quasar - Ask a Spaceman!

Full podcast episodes: Follow on Twitter: Like on Facebook: How do we measure the expansion history of the universe? Why are supernovae so dang useful? Come on, what�s with this �dark energy� business? I discuss these questions and more in today�s Ask a Spaceman! Support the show: All episodes: Follow on Twitter: : Like on Facebook Watch on YouTube: Keep those questions about space, science, astronomy, astrophysics, physics, and cosmology coming to #AskASpaceman for COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE! Big thanks to my top Patreon supporters this month: Mathieu B., Justin G., Tim F., Helge B., Alan M., Tim R., Ray S., Michael C., Bill S., Lars H., David C., Silvan W., David B., Kevin O., Justin R., Jessica K., James L., and Michael Z.! Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain. Thanks to WCBE Radio for hosting the recording session, Greg Mobius for producing, and Cathy Rinella for editing. Hosted by Paul M. Sutter, astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, Chief Scientist at COSI Science Center, and the one and only Agent to the Stars Category Subscribe: Follow: on Twitter Support: on Patreon Keep those questions about space, science, astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology coming for COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE!

Astronomers Process Hubble’s Deepest Image to get Even More Data,
and Show that Some Galaxies are Twice as big as Previously Believed

It allowed us to spot auroras on Saturn and planets orbiting distant suns. It permitted astronomers to see galaxies in the early stages of formation, and look back to some of the earliest periods in the Universe. It also measured the distances to Cepheid variable stars more accurately than ever before, which helped astrophysicists constrain how fast the Universe is expanding (the Hubble Constant).

Images from the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF). Credit: NASA/ESA/S. Beckwith (STScI)/HUDF Team

The first ABYSS HUDF mosaic. Credit: Borlaff (et al)/ABYSS/IAC

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The Earliest Example of Merging Galaxies Ever Found (June 29, 2019)

Artist’s impression of the merging galaxies B14-65666 located 13 billion light-years away. Credit: NAOJ.


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You’re Looking at Spiral Galaxies, Already Forming When the Universe was Just a Baby



With Thanks to the Alpine Project

ALMA Large Program to INvestigate at Early times (ALPINE), a multiwavelength survey that examined galaxies that were around when the Universe was less than 1.5 billion years old.


Observatories that make up the Alpine Project

This is a composite image of the object B14-65666. Red is dust, oxygen is green, and carbon is blue. White is stars as seen by the Hubble space telescope. Image Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, Hashimoto et al.

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“Big Three Dragons”: a z = 7.15 Lyman Break Galaxy Detected in [Oiii] 88 µm, [Cii] 158 µm, and Dust Continuum with ALMA (PDF)

Watch a Simulation of a Galaxy, From the Big Bang Until the Present Day

Since the mid-20th century, scientists have had a pretty good idea of how the Universe came to be. Cosmic expansion and the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lent credibility to the Big Bang Theory, and the accelerating rate of expansion led to theories about Dark Energy. Still, there is much about the early Universe that scientists still don’t know, which requires that they rely on simulations on cosmic evolution.

Formation of a single massive galaxy through time in the TNG50 cosmic simulation

The formation of a single massive galaxy through time, from early cosmic epochs until the present day, in the TNG50 cosmic simulation. The main panel shows the density of the cosmic gas (high in white, low in black). Insets show large-scale dark matter and then gas (lower left), and small-scale stellar and gaseous distributions (lower right). This TNG50 galaxy will be similar in mass and shape to Andromeda (M31) by the time the movie reaches the current epoch. Its progenitor experiences rapid star formation in a turbulent gas reservoir which settles into an ordered disc after a couple of billion years of cosmic evolution. A rather quiet late time assembly history without major mergers allows the galaxy to relax into an equilibrium balance of gas outflows from supernova explosions and gas accretion from its surroundings.

New research suggests that Dark Matter may exist in clumps distributed throughout our universe. Credit: Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics

The Most Massive Galaxies Spin More Than Twice as Fast as the Milky Way

Pictured M-77 It’s a difficult thing to wrap your head around sometimes. Though it might feel stationary, planet Earth is actually moving at an average velocity of 29.78 km/s (107,200 km/h; 66600 mph). And yet, our planet has nothing on the Sun itself, which travels around the center of our galaxy at a velocity of 220 km/s (792,000 km/h; 492,000 mph).

Mosaic of super spiral galaxy images. Credit: NASA/ESA/P. Ogle/J. DePasquale (STScI) (top row); SDSS/P. Ogle/J. DePasquale (STScI) (bottom row)

Archived NASA images showing “super spiral” galaxies that dwarf our own spiral galaxy, the Milky Way. Credit: SDSS

Distribution of dark matter when the Universe was about 3 billion years old, obtained from a numerical simulation of galaxy formation. Credit: VIRGO Consortium/Alexandre Amblard/ESA

Astronomers Find a Galaxy Containing Three Supermassive Black Holes at the Center

NGC 6240 is a puzzle to astronomers. For a long time, astronomers thought the galaxy is a result of a merger between two galaxies, and that merger is evident in the galaxy’s form: It has an unsettled appearance, with two nuclei and extensions and loops.

New observations show that NGC 6240 is home to three supermassive black holes, not two. The northern (N) black hole was previously known, and is an active hole. The new observations shows that the southern black hole is actually two holes: S1 and S2. Image Credit: P Weilbacher (AIP), NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)

A Chandra X-ray Observatory image of NGC 6240 superimposed on a visible light image. Even in x-rays the Southern black hole appears a a single entity. Image Credit: Public Domain,(WIKIPEDIA)

With thanks to the European Southern Observatory and it's MUSE Telescope

Galaxies Like the Milky Way are the Best for Life

Scientists have speculated that given the sheer number of galaxies in our Universe – modern estimates are as high as 2 trillion – that there must be infinite opportunities for life to emerge. It has also been theorized that galaxies (like stars) have habitable zones, where star systems located too close to the core or too far out in the spiral arms will be exposed to too much radiation for life to emerge.

Does Our Galaxy Have a Habitable Zone? Where Life Can Form in the Milky Way

It’s not just our Solar System that has a habitable zone, it turns out our entire galaxy has regions which would be hostile to the formation of life as we know it. Sign up to my weekly email newsletter: Support us at:Support us at: Follow us on Tumblr: More stories at Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook:

What Is a Galaxy?

Galaxies are concentrations of stars, gas, dust, and dark matter. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Some are fated to collide, like the Milky Way and Andromeda.

Evolution diagram of a galaxy. First the galaxy is dominated by the disk component (left) but active star formation occurs in the huge dust and gas cloud at the center of the galaxy (center). Then the galaxy is dominated by the stellar bulge and becomes an elliptical or lenticular galaxy. Credit: NAOJ

With Thanks to the Space Telescope Science institute


ASTRONOMY NOW GALAXY MERGER NGC 3256


Image of the dust filaments of the NGC 4217 galaxy, taken by Hubble. Credit ESA/Hubble & NASA

Image of the Very Large Array at work. Credit: Andrew Clegg, NSF

NGC 4217 from wikipedia


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Mission to the Universe

NASA Selects SPHERE to Study the Early Universe

Space Fan News is Sponsored by OPT Telescopes and Patreon Patrons: In this episode, NASA has added a really cool new mission that will explore the early universe and it is designed to help astronomers understand how our universe evolved. Earlier this month, NASA has selected a new space mission called SPHEREx which stands for the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer. Consider supporting Space Fan News: to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: Like Space Fan News on Facebook:

An Infrared Map of the Universe

This all-sky view of the entire near-infrared sky reveals the distribution of galaxies beyond the Milky Way.
The image is derived from the 2MASS Extended Source Catalog, which contains more than 1.5 million galaxies,
and the Point Source Catalog, which holds nearly 500 million stars within the Milky Way.
The galaxies are color coded for distances obtained by various surveys. The nearest sources are blue,
moderately distant sources are green, and red represents the farthest sources.

MOST �OUTRAGEOUS� LUMINOUS GALAXIES EVER OBSERVED in the universe 24 Mar , 2016 by Evan Gough

An artist's conception of an extremely luminous infrared galaxy similar to the ones reported in this paper.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

The Universe is big!!!!

Team simulates the expansion of the Universe

The gravitational waves generated during the formation of structures in the universe are shown.
The structures (distribution of masses) are shown as bright dots, gravitational waves by ellipses.
The size of the ellipse is proportional to the amplitude of the wave and its orientation represents its polarization.
Credit: � Ruth Durrer, UNIGE Read more

THe Ekpyotic Model

Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University has proposed a "Ekpyrotic Model" of the Universe
that describes our current universe as arising from a collision of two three-dimensional worlds (branes)
in a space with an extra (fourth) spatial dimension. The proposal is interesting in and of itself,

History of the Universe

Logarithmic Maps of the Universe

This is a nice map of the universe in a logarithmic scale by Gott, Juric et al. starting from the Earth interior up to the edge of the visible universe. Credit:Planetary Habitability Laboratory University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo posted Jul 6, 2011, 8:01 AM by Abel Mendez


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NASA Selects New Mission to Explore Origins of Universe


Our Position in the Universe & How did the Universe from the Big Bang???

A Giant Galaxy Seen Lighting Up the Universe Shortly After the Big Bang

About 370,000 years after the Big Bang, the Universe experienced a period that cosmologists refer to as the “Cosmic Dark Ages.” During this period, the Universe was obscured by pervasive neutral gas that obscured all visible light, making it invisible to astronomers. As the first stars and galaxies formed over the next few hundred millions of years, the radiation they emitted ionized this plasma, making the Universe transparent.

The Observable Universe, as depicted by what our telescopes can see. Credit: NASA

The galaxy A370p_z1 in the Hubble imaging and a zoom-in in each filter. Credit: NASA, ESA, Z. Levay (STSci)

Artist’s impression illustrating the technique of Lyman-alpha tomography. Credit: Khee-Gan Lee (MPIA) and Casey Stark (UC Berkeley)

If what Meyer and his colleagues observed is typical of reionization-era galaxies, then we can assume that reionization was caused by a small group of galaxies that created large bubbles of ionized gas around them that grew and overlapped. As Meyer explained, this discovery could point the way towards the creation of a new cosmological model that accurately predicts how and when major changes in the early Universe took place:

The Big Bang timeline of the Universe. Cosmic neutrinos affect the CMB at the time it was emitted, and physics takes care of the rest of their evolution until today. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / A. Kashlinsky (GSFC).

Did Neutrinos Stop The Early Universe From Annihilating Itself?

We can create matter from energy in the lab. Particle accelerators do this all the time. When we do, half of what is created is matter and the other half antimatter. There is a symmetry in physics that requires matter and antimatter to appear in equal amounts. But when we look around the universe, what we see is matter. So how did the big bang create all the matter we see without creating an equal amount of antimatter? The answer could be neutrinos.

Fundamental symmetries in physics. Credit: Flip Tanedo One of the fundamental symmetries in physics is the conservation of charge. The total charge in the universe is zero, and that can’t change. So if you create a charged particle of matter, you must also create a corresponding antimatter particle with the opposite charge. This symmetry is so central to physics that astronomers think the big bang created matter and antimatter in equal amounts. Soon afterward, something must have happened to leave the universe with more matter than antimatter.

Left-handed and right-handed chirality. Credit: Wikipedia Every elementary particle has a rotation-like property known as spin. When a particle is shooting through space, the spin and motion can point along its direction of motion, or opposite to its motion. The former is known as right-handed chirality, while the latter is left-handed. Both matter and antimatter particles can have either chirality, except for the neutrino. Neutrinos are always left-handed, and anti-neutrinos are always right-handed.

How a cosmic phase change could create a matter universe. Credit: R.Hurt/Caltech-JPL, NASA, and ESA, with modifications by Kavli IPMU

Did Neutrinos Stop The Early Universe From Annihilating Itself?

We can create matter from energy in the lab. Particle accelerators do this all the time. When we do, half of what is created is matter and the other half antimatter. There is a symmetry in physics that requires matter and antimatter to appear in equal amounts. But when we look around the universe, what we see is matter. So how did the big bang create all the matter we see without creating an equal amount of antimatter? The answer could be neutrinos. Matter and antimatter are kind of like cosmic twins. For every type of matter particle, there is a corresponding antimatter particle. The main difference between the two is their electric charge. For example, an electron has a negative charge, while the anti-electron (commonly called the positron) has a positive charge. Protons have a positive charge, while anti-protons have a negative one.

Fundamental symmetries in physics. Credit: Flip Tanedo One of the fundamental symmetries in physics is the conservation of charge. The total charge in the universe is zero, and that can’t change. So if you create a charged particle of matter, you must also create a corresponding antimatter particle with the opposite charge. This symmetry is so central to physics that astronomers think the big bang created matter and antimatter in equal amounts. Soon afterward, something must have happened to leave the universe with more matter than antimatter.

Left-handed and right-handed chirality.Credit: Wikipedia Every elementary particle has a rotation-like property known as spin. When a particle is shooting through space, the spin and motion can point along its direction of motion, or opposite to its motion. The former is known as right-handed chirality, while the latter is left-handed. Both matter and antimatter particles can have either chirality, except for the neutrino. Neutrinos are always left-handed, and anti-neutrinos are always right-handed.

How a cosmic phase change could create a matter universe. Credit: R.Hurt/Caltech-JPL, NASA, and ESA, with modifications by Kavli IPMU The idea is that very soon after matter and antimatter appeared in the cosmos, the universe underwent a phase change where more antimatter converted into heavy anti-neutrinos than matter converted into heavy matter neutrinos. The total charge of the universe remained zero, and the matter-antimatter balance is preserved, but what remained was mostly regular matter and heavy anti-neutrinos.

Timeline of the Universe!

Fate of the Universe!!

From futurism.com"

Scientists are fairly certain that, one day, our universe will come to an end. Here's how they think this might happen.

Life Could be Common Across the Universe, Just Not in Our Region

Logarithmic scheme of the observable universe with some of the notable astronomical objects known today. From left to right the celestial bodies are arranged according to their proximity to Earth. In the left border, Earth and near-Earth objects are depicted. In the right border, the most distant observed objects are depicted including GRBs, quasars, supercluster of galaxies and the cosmic microwave background radiation. Celestial bodies appear with enlarged size to appreciate their shape. By Pablo Carlos Budassi - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,

Logarithms help us make sense of huge numbers, and in this case, huge distances. Rather than showing all parts of the universe
on a linear scale, each chunk of the circle represents a field of view several orders of magnitude larger than the one before it.
That's why the entire observable universe can fit inside the circle.

Double-stranded RNA. Image Credit: By Supyyyy – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,

Diagram of evolution of the (observable part) of the universe from the Big Bang (left), the CMB-reference afterglow, to the present. Image Credit: By NASA/WMAP Science Team – Original version: NASA; modified by Cherkash, Public Domain,

How Big Is The Universe?

The Universe is big, but how big is it? That all depends on whether the Universe is finite or infinite. Even the word "big" is tough to get clear. Are we talking about the size of the Universe we can see, or the Universe's actual size right now?


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THE UNIVERSE�S MISSING MATTER. FOUND!

Bayron Census

THE BARYON CENSUS IN A MULTIPHASE INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM:
30% OF THE BARYONS MAY STILL BE MISSING (PDF)

J. Michael Shull, Britton D. Smith1, and Charles W. Danforth CASA, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA; michael.shull@colorado.edu, smit1685@msu.edu, charles.danforth@colorado.edu Received 2011 December 6; accepted 2012 September 12; published 2012 October 12

Artist�s impression of ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

Close-up of star near a supermassive black hole (artist�s impression). Credit: ESA/Hubble, ESO, M. Kornmesser


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Website of the Illustris Project

the illustris project

A simulation of the cosmic web, diffuse tendrils of gas that connect galaxies across the universe. Credit: Illustris Collaboration

Illustris Simulation: Most detailed simulation of our Universe

The Illustris simulation is the most ambitious computer simulation of our Universe yet performed. The calculation tracks the expansion of the universe, the gravitational pull of matter onto itself, the motion of cosmic gas, as well as the formation of stars and black holes. These physical components and processes are all modeled starting from initial conditions resembling the very young universe 300,000 years after the Big Bang and until the present day, spanning over 13.8 billion years of cosmic evolution. The simulated volume contains tens of thousands of galaxies captured in high-detail, covering a wide range of masses, rates of star formation, shapes, sizes, and with properties that agree well with the galaxy population observed in the real universe. The simulations were run on supercomputers in France, Germany, and the US. The largest was run on 8,192 compute cores, and took 19 million CPU hours. A single state-of-the-art desktop computer would require more than 2000 years to perform this calculation. Find out more at: the illustris project Publication: "Properties of galaxies reproduced by a hydrodynamic simulation", Vogelsberger, Genel, Springel, Torrey, Sijacki, Xu, Snyder, Bird, Nelson, Hernquist, Nature 509, 177-182 (08 May 2014) doi:10.1038/nature13316 Music: moonbooter Institutes: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, University of Cambridge, Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, Space Telescope Science Institute

Supercomputer Simulation of the Universe and Galaxies (@ z=2)

Volume-rendering of the gas distribution taken from a cosmological simulation done with the new moving mesh code AREPO Credit: Mark Vogelsberger, Harvard University Center for Astrophysics Institute for Theory and Computation Simulation Details: Boxsize: (20 Mpc/h)^3 particle number: 512^3 collisionless + 512^3 Voronoi cells computing: Harvard Odyssey cluster code: AREPO by Springel (2010) Reference: "Moving mesh cosmology: numerical techniques and global statistics" Mark Vogelsberger, Debora Sijacki, Dusan Keres, Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist (2011) Website: of Institute for Theory and Computation
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Major New Cosmic Simulation: Why it's Significant

Scientists have created an important new simulation of cosmic evolution. It takes place in a virtual cube 350 million light-years squared, and spans a time period from 12 million years after the Big Bang to the present day, or around 13 billion years' worth of cosmic evolution. The project, called Illustris, encompasses over 12 billion data points to track the rise and evolution of some 50,000 galaxies. The simulation used a total of 8,000 processors, the equivalent of 2,000 years of processing time on a standard desktop computer. The run created half-petabyte of information. The end result is a model that not only recreates the emergence of stars and galaxies, but the influence of dark matter and the spread of heavy metals throughout the universe.


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COSMIC VOID CONTAINS FEWER GALAXIES THAN EXPECTED, WHICH, IRONICALLY,
MAKES IT HARDER FOR LIGHT TO GET THROUGH

A computer simulation of the distribution of matter in the universe. Orange regions host galaxies; blue structures are gas and dark matter. Credit: TNG Collaboration

This illustration shows the evolution of the Universe, from the Big Bang on the left, to modern times on the right. Credit: NASA

Why Can't We See The Big Bang?

Since telescopes let us look back in time, shouldn't we be able to see all the way back to the very beginning of time itself? To the moment of the Big Bang? Sign up to my weekly email newsletter: Support us at:Support us at: : More stories at Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: Google+ - Instagram - Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / frasercain@gmail.com /Karla Thompson - @karlaii Chad Weber - Chloe Cain - Instagram: @chloegwen2001



Zooming in on NGC 6752 and Bedin 1

NGC 6725

This video takes the viewer on a journey to the globular cluster NGC 6752. The final view, from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the bright stars of the cluster, as well as a collection of faint stars; these faint stars are actually part of a background galaxy, which was discovered accidentally by astronomers studying the cluster itself. The galaxy is about 30 million light-years away, is classified as a dwarf spheroidal galaxy and has been nicknamed Bedin 1, after the principal investigator. More information and download options: Credit: Credits: Risinger, DSS, Hubble, Damian Peach Music: Astral Electronic


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Meet Our Neighbour, The Local Void. Gaze Into It, Puny Humans.

Our planet is part of the larger structure of the Solar System, shaped and made stable by the force of gravity. Our Solar System is gravitationally bound to the Milky Way galaxy, along with hundreds of millions of other solar systems. And our galaxy is also part of a larger structure, where not only gravity, but the expansion of the Universe, shapes and molds that structure. For regular Universe Today readers, none of that is news.

Laniakea: Our home supercluster

Superclusters – regions of space that are densely packed with galaxies – are the biggest structures in the Universe. But scientists have struggled to define exactly where one supercluster ends and another begins. Now, a team based in Hawaii has come up with a new technique that maps the Universe according to the flow of galaxies across space. Redrawing the boundaries of the cosmic map, they redefine our home supercluster and name it Laniakea, which means ‘immeasurable heaven’ in Hawaiian. Read the research paper: Read Nature's news story: Caption author (Spanish) Margarita Villegas

Image of the large-scale structure of the Universe, showing filaments and voids within the cosmic structure. Credit: Millennium Simulation Project

Local Group and nearest galaxies. The photos of galaxies are not to scale. Local Group of galaxies, including the massive members Messier 31 (Andromeda Galaxy) and Milky Way, as well as other nearby galaxies. Credit:Antonio Ciccolella - Own work

Cosmicflows-3: Cosmography of the Local Void from Daniel Pomarède on Vimeo.


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What Are Cosmic Voids? The Biggest Nothings in the Universe

We talked about the biggest structures in the Universe, but what about the opposite? The biggest empty spaces in the Universe, the cosmic voids that separate the clusters of galaxies. Check out our interview with Paul M. Sutter, a specialist on cosmic voids: Sign up to my weekly email newsletter: Support us at:Support us at: Follow us on Tumblr: : More stories at Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: Instagram - Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / frasercain@gmail.com /Karla Thompson - @karlaii Chad Weber - Chloe Cain - Instagram: @chloegwen2001 Music: Left Spine Down - “X-Ray”


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Astronomers See the Farthest Galaxy Group Ever Found, When the Universe was Only 5% of its Current Age


Astronomers Spot Distant Galaxy Group Driving Ancient Cosmic Makeover


The solar system and beyond

By looking deeper into space (and farther back in time), astronomers and cosmologists continue to push the boundaries of what is known about the Universe. Thanks to improvements in instrumentation and observation techniques, we are now at the point where astronomers are able to observe some of the earliest galaxies in the Universe – which in turn is providing vital clues about how our Universe evolved.

Distant Galaxy Group Caught Driving Ancient Cosmic Makeover

This animation shows EGS77’s place in cosmic history, flies to the galaxies, and illustrates how ultraviolet light from their stars create bubbles of ionized hydrogen around them. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Visualization: How UV Light From 1st Stars, Galaxies Transformed Universe

This visualization shows how ultraviolet light from the first stars and galaxies gradually transformed the universe. Hydrogen atoms, also called neutral hydrogen, readily scatters UV light, preventing it from traveling very far from its sources. Gradually, intense UV light from stars and galaxies split apart the hydrogen atoms, creating expanding bubbles of ionized gas. As these bubbles grew and overlapped, the cosmic fog lifted. Astronomers call this process reionization. Here, regions already ionized are blue and translucent, areas undergoing ionization are red and white, and regions of neutral gas are dark and opaque. Credit: M. Alvarez, R. Kaehler and T. Abel (2009) Read more:

WFIRST: The Best of Both Worlds

NASA officially is beginning work on an astrophysics mission designed to help unlock the secrets of the universe -- the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). With a view 100 times bigger than that of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, WFIRST will aid researchers in their efforts to unravel the secrets of dark energy and dark matter, and explore the evolution of the cosmos. It also will discover new worlds outside our solar system and advance the search for worlds that could be suitable for life. WFIRST is the agency's next major astrophysics observatory, following the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope in 2018. The observatory will survey large regions of the sky in near-infrared light to answer fundamental questions about the structure and evolution of the universe, and expand our knowledge of planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets. It will carry a Wide Field Instrument for surveys, and a Coronagraph Instrument designed to block the glare of individual stars and reveal the faint light of planets orbiting around them. By blocking the light of the host star, the Coronagraph Instrument will enable detailed measurements of the chemical makeup of planetary atmospheres. Comparing these data across many worlds will allow scientists to better understand the origin and physics of these atmospheres, and search for chemical signs of environments suitable for life. The telescope’s sensitivity and wide view will enable a large-scale search for exoplanets by monitoring the brightness of millions of stars in the crowded central region of our galaxy. The survey will net thousands of new exoplanets similar in size and distance from their star as those in our own solar system, complementing the work started by NASA's Kepler mission and the upcoming work of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Employing multiple techniques, astronomers also will use WFIRST to track how dark energy and dark matter have affected the evolution of our universe. Dark energy is a mysterious, negative pressure that has been speeding up the expansion of the universe. Dark matter is invisible material that makes up most of the matter in our universe. By measuring the distances of thousands of supernovae, astronomers can map in detail how cosmic expansion has increased with time. WFIRST also can precisely measure the shapes, positions and distances of millions of galaxies to track the distribution and growth of cosmic structures, including galaxy clusters and the dark matter accompanying them. WFIRST is slated to launch in the mid-2020s. The observatory will begin operations after traveling to a gravitational balance point known as Earth-Sun L2, which is located about one million miles from Earth in a direction directly opposite the sun. WFIRST is managed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, with participation by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, also in Pasadena, and a science team comprised of members from U.S. research institutions across the country. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger This video is public domain and may be downloaded at:

From Phys.org The Most distant galaxy as of May 2020


Newly Found Galaxy Wolfe Disk Shouldn't Really Exist

You can buy Universe Sandbox 2 game here: Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a new discovery of what seems to be a disk galaxy in an early universe - something we didn't think would be possible. Paper: Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: Space Engine is available for free here: Enjoy and please subscribe. Twitter: Facebook: Twitch: Bitcoins to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! 1GFiTKxWyEjAjZv4vsNtWTUmL53HgXBuvu The hardware used to record these videos: CPU: Video Card: Motherboard: RAM: PSU: Case: Microphone: Mixer: Recording and Editing:


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New Research Suggests that the Universe is a Sphere and Not Flat After All

Figure from the 1600s showing Ptolemy’s universe. Credit: Library of Congress

Possible shapes of the universe. Credit: NASA

Appearance of the CMB affected by cosmic shape. Credit: NASA/WMAP Science Team

The Universe: Size, Shape, and Fate

The Universe: Size, Shape, and Fate By Tom Murphy, January 9, 2006


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The Largest Rotating Objects in the Universe: Galactic Filaments Hundreds of Millions of Light-Years Long

We’ve known for a while about the large-scale structure of the Universe. Galaxies reside in filaments hundreds of millions of light-years long, on a backbone of dark matter. And, where those filaments meet, there are galaxy clusters. Between them are massive voids, where galaxies are sparse. Now a team of astronomers in Germany and their colleagues in China and Estonia have made an intriguing discovery.

Image of the large-scale structure of the Universe, showing filaments and voids within the cosmic structure. Credit: Millennium Simulation Project

This figure from the paper shows the filament rotation speed as a function of the distance between galaxies and the filament spine. The distance of galaxies from the filament spine in the receding region is displayed in red and ascribed positive values, while the distance of galaxies in the approaching region is marked in blue and ascribed negative values. Error bars represent the standard deviation about the mean. Image Credit: Wang et al 2021.

What Are Cosmic Voids? The Biggest Nothings in the Universe

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Unexpected Discovery: Largest Rotating Structure in the Universe

Good telescope that I've used to learn the basics: Get a Wonderful Person shirt: Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a discovery of the largest spinning structure in the universe. Paper: Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: Space Engine is available for free here: Enjoy and please subscribe. Or get a shirt: Twitter: Facebook: Twitch: Bitcoins to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! 1GFiTKxWyEjAjZv4vsNtWTUmL53HgXBuvu The hardware used to record these videos: CPU: Video Card: Motherboard: RAM: PSU: Case: Microphone: Mixer: Recording and Editing: Some of the above are affiliate links, meaning I would get a (very small) percentage of the price paid. Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships: Tybie Fitzhugh Viktor Óriás Les Heifner theGrga Steven Cincotta Mitchell McCowan Partially Engineered Humanoid Alexander Falk Drew Hart Arie Verhoeff Aaron Smyth Mike Davis Greg Testroet John Taylor EXcitedJoyousWorldly ! Christopher Ellard Gregory Shore maggie obrien Matt Showalter Tamara Franz R Schaefer diffuselogic Grundle Muffins AIP/ A. Khalatyan/ J. Fohlmeister Andrew Z. Colvin , CC BY-SA 4.0 , Images/Videos: Illustris Project everything moves past something else and because of this this momentum at a distance creates angular momentum Mysterious Alingment of Quasar Rotation Axes Constrained Local Universe Evolution Simulation

Mysterious Alingment of Quasar Rotation Axes



Constrained Local Universe Evolution Simulation




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Is the Universe a Fractal?

We find examples of fractals everywhere in nature. Tree branches, snowflakes, river deltas, cloud formations, and more. So it’s natural to ask the ultimate question: is the entire universe one giant fractal? The answer is…no, but sorta yes.

Is the Universe a Fractal? - Ask a Spaceman!

The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: in Skillshare This video was sponsored by Skillshare. Full podcast episodes: Support:on Patreon Follow:on twitter and Follow on Facebook How did Einstein develop General Relativity? What does it mean for space to be curved anyway? And just how do these gravitational waves work, anyhow? I answer these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! Follow all the show updates at and help support the show at Keep those questions about space, science, astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology coming to #AskASpaceman for COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE! 00:00 Intro 01:35 Fractal are Everywhere! 04:45 Fractal Cosmology 08:29 The Large-scale Structure of the Universe 11:41 Observing Fractals 13:26 Clusters, Voids, and the Multiverse Image credits: Illustris Collaboration / Illustris Simulation 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey M. A. Aragon (JHU) NASA


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New Radio Images of Bizarre “Odd Radio Circles” Which are Vastly Bigger Than the Milky Way

In radio astronomy, circle-shaped objects are fairly common. Since diffuse ionized gas often emits radio light, objects such as supernova remnants, planetary nebulae, and even star-forming regions can create circular arcs of diffuse gas. But in 2019 astronomers began to discover radio circles they couldn’t explain, in part because they are so large.

he first ORC image (left) and this latest image (right). Credit: The EMU team, using ASKAP and MeerKAT radio continuum data



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NASA's Upcoming SPHEREx Mission Will map the Entire Universe in Infrared Every 6 Months

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SPHEREx The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer mission will provide the first all-sky spectral survey. Over a two-year planned mission, the SPHEREx Observatory will collect data on more than 300 million galaxies along with more than 100 million stars in the Milky Way in order to explore the origins of the universe.

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The universe is cold and dark. And yet, within the dark, there is a faint glow of warmth. Across the sky, there are objects that emit infrared light, similar to the light that warms your hands near a campfire. By observing this light, astronomers can see the cosmos in a way that looks very different from that seen by our eyes.

A JWST engineering image of the star 2MASS J17554042+6551277, uses a red filter to optimize visual contrast. Credits: NASA/STScI


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JWST Turns Its Gaze on the Cartwheel Galaxy

This image of the Cartwheel and its companion galaxies is a composite from Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). Courtesy NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

The mid-infrared light captured by MIRI reveals chemical details about dusty regions in the Cartwheel and young stars it contains. Young stars, many of which are present in the bottom right of the outer ring, energize surrounding hydrocarbon dust, causing it to glow orange. On the other hand, the clearly defined dust between the core and the outer ring forms the “spokes” that inspire the galaxy’s name. This dust feeds the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy.

The Cartwheel is part of a group of four galaxies, as shown in this collage of images from ground-based optical and radio telescopes and the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. Curt Struck and Philip Appleton (Iowa State University), Kirk Borne (Hughes STX Corporation), and Ray Lucas (Space Telescope Science Institute), Jim Higdon (Australia Telescope National Facility’s Paul Wild Observatory), Victor Blanco (Cerro Tololo)

Cartwheel Galaxy in visible light, x-ray, and ultraviolet. Courtesy NASA/ESA/STSci, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, GALEX.


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Did you Want More Scientific Information About the First set of Images From JWST? Fill Your Boots

James Webb's first images! Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI

JWST First Full-Color Images Explainedx

NASA finally released James Webb's first full-color images. We have 5 great photos of different regions of space. So, in this video we're digesting all the great pictures we got from JWST. 00:00 - Intro 00:49 - Deep Field 04:37 - Exoplanet 07:26 - Stellar Death 10:12 - Galaxy 12:12 - Stellar Birth 14:27 - Outro More about the first JWST images: The Big Q: JWST Interview with Noble Prize Laureate John Mather Interview with Dr. Klaus Pontoppidan Interview with Lee Feinberg, Optical Telescope Manager Interview with Lee Feinberg, Optical Telescope Manager Host: Fraser Cain Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: ════════════════════════════════════ 🚀 OUR WEBSITE: 🚀 PODCAST LINKS: ════════════════════════════════════ RSS: iTunes: Spotify 🚀 EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ════════════════════════════════════ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: 🚀 OTHER PODCASTS: ════════════════════════════════════ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: iTunes: YouTube: Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: iTunes: YouTube: 🚀 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ════════════════════════════════════ Patreon: 🚀 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ════════════════════════════════════ Twitter: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: Twitch: 🚀 CONTACT FRASER: ════════════════════════════════════ CONTACT FRASER: via Email: 🚀 LICENSE: ════════════════════════════════════ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

Deep Field Galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3-7327, imaged by Hubble (left) and the JWST (right). Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI

Stephan’s Quintet, as imaged by Hubble (left) and the JWST (right). Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI

The “Cosmic Cliffs” feature in the Carina Nebula, as imaged by Hubble (top) and the JWST (bottom). Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI

The Southern Ring Nebula in near-infrared light (left) and mid-infrared light (right) from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI

WASP-96b A transmission spectrum based on data acquired by Webb’s Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS). Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez


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Here’s a Sneak Preview of What It’ll Look Like When the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Collide

This image from the Gemini North telescope in Hawai‘i reveals a pair of interacting spiral galaxies — NGC 4568 (bottom) and NGC 4567 (top) — as they begin to clash and merge. The galaxies will eventually form a single elliptical galaxy in around 500 million years.

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years. In this image, representing Earth’s night sky in 3.75 billion years, Andromeda (left) fills the field of view and begins to distort the Milky Way with tidal pull. (Credit: NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger)



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Scroll Through the Universe with This Cool Interactive Map

Expansion of the Universe (Credit: NASA/WMAP Science Team)

The map of the Universe from the Milky Way to the edge of what can be seen

Johns Hopkins University (JHU) continues to pad its space community résumé with their interactive map, “The map of the observable Universe”, that takes viewers on a 13.7-billion-year-old tour of the cosmos from the present to the moments after the Big Bang. While JHU is responsible for creating the site, additional contributions were made by NASA, the European Space Agency, the National Science Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation.


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Even the Largest Structures in the Universe Have a Magnetic Field

This Is a Fascinating. An Image of a Galaxy’s Magnetic Field

There’s always more than one way to look at the world. There’s also more than one way to look at a galaxy. And sometimes combining those ways of looking can result in something truly special. That is what happened recently when a team of astronomers from seven different universities in four different countries used three different telescopes to produce an absolutely spectacular image of a galaxy and its surrounding magnetic field. The galaxy in the image is NGC 4217, a spiral galaxy which can be seen edge on in the constellation Ursa Major. It’s similar in shape to the Milky Way and about 67 million light years away. It also has a very large magnetic field.

A composite image showing the magnetic fields of the cosmic web. Credit: Vernstrom et al

Three different observations of the cosmic web (gas, radio, and magnetic) accompanied by a composite image. Credit: K. Brown

Magnetic fields mapped within the Whirlpool Galaxy. Credit: NASA, SOFIA science team, ESA, STScI

White lines show the complex structure of magnetic fields in our galaxy. Credit: Doi, et al




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The Universe Sparkles in Gamma Rays in this New NASA Animation

Cosmic fireworks, invisible to our eyes, fill the night sky. We can get a glimpse of this elusive light show thanks to the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which observes the sky in gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light. Image Credit: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center/Daniel Kocevski

Blazars Explained: The Most Energetic Objects

This animation shows the gamma-ray sky’s frenzied activity during a year of observations from February 2022 to February 2023. The pulsing circles represent just a subset of more than 1,500 light curves – records of how sources change in brightness over time – collected by the LAT over nearly 15 years in space. Credit: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center/Daniel Kocevski

Blazars Explained: The Most Energetic Objects

Blazars are the most luminous and energetic objects in the known universe. But what are blazars and what makes them so powerful? SUBSCRIBE ► ---- Website ► Facebook ► Instagram ► Twitter ► Narrator: Russell Archey Graphics & Credits: envato.com storyblocks.com Space Engine NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Music: Space Noise - Martin Klem - Cosmoknowledge brings news from space. We love you, explorers!

This is a static screen grab of the LAT repository User can double-click on a source to bring up more information. Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.

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A Brief History of the Discovery of Cosmic Voids

This artist's impression of the cosmic web, the filamentary structure that fills the entire Universe. Credit: M. Weiss/CfA

The Dipole Repeller: The Void That’s Tearing Us Apart - Ask a Spaceman!

Full podcast episodes: Support: Follow: Follow: on twitter Follow:on Facebook What is the dipole repeller? Why is it a dipole? What is it repelling? What is the Bootes Void and how is it connected to dark energy? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! Follow all the show updates at and help support the show at Keep those questions about space, science, astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology coming to #AskASpaceman for COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE! Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain. 0:00 - Mapping the Local Universe 3:58 - Superclusters and Voids 10:37 - The Shapley Attractor and the Dipole Repeller 14:32 - Pushing with Noth

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The Largest Simulation of the Universe Ever Made

Image of the large-scale structure of the Universe, showing filaments and voids within the cosmic structure. The latest FLAMINGO simulation provide more detail about the evolution of the Universe. Credit: Millennium Simulation Project

The background image shows the present-day distribution of matter in a slice through the largest FLAMINGO simulation, which is a cubic volume of 2.8 Gpc (9.1 billion light years) on a side. The luminosity of the background image gives the present-day distribution of dark matter, while the color encodes the distribution of neutrinos. The insets show three consecutive zooms centered on the most massive cluster of galaxies; in order, these show the gas temperature, the dark matter density, and a virtual X-ray observation. Josh Borrow, the FLAMINGO team and the Virgo Consortium.

The surface density of cold dark matter is modeled in a 20 Mpc slice of the Universe. This is part of the FLAMINGO simulation. Courtesy Joop Schaye, et al.


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Astronomers See Massive Stars Forming Together in Multiple Star Systems

This false-color image of the massive star formation region G333.23–0.06 came from data obtained with the ALMA radio observatory. The insets show regions where researchers detected multiple systems of protostars. The star symbols indicate the location of each newly forming star. Image Credit: S. Li, MPIA / J. Neidel, MPIA Graphics Department / Data: ALMA Observatory

This is a Hubble image of the star cluster R136 at the heart of the Tarantula Nebula. It’s a starburst region that’s home to several extremely massive stars, including R136a1, which is almost 200 times more massive than the Sun. Image Credit: By NASA, ESA, F. Paresce (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy), R. O’Connell (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee

This multi-pane image illustrates the research and the ALMA observations. a is an image of G333.23–0.06 from the Australian Telescope Compact Array showing very little detail. b is ALMA’s low-resolution image of the star-forming region. c, d, e, f, and g are high-resolution ALMA images showing dense cores fragmenting into multiple massive stars. Image Credit: Li et al. 2024.


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Astronomers Find the Most Massive Supercluster to Date

Einasto supercluster Credit:Sankhyayan et al. 2023 APJ.

Hot stars burn brightly in this image from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer, showing the ultraviolet side of a familiar face. At approximately 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda galaxy, or M31, is our Milky Way’s largest galactic neighbor.

A study by MIT physicists suggest the Milky Way’s gravitational core may be lighter in mass, and contain less dark matter, than previously thought. Credits:Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Edited by MIT News


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New Radio Images of Bizarre “Odd Radio Circles” Which are Vastly Bigger Than the Milky Way

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NASA's Upcoming SPHEREx Mission Will map the Entire Universe in Infrared Every 6 Months

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WST Turns Its Gaze on the Cartwheel Galaxy

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Here’s a Sneak Preview of What It’ll Look Like When the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Collide

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Scroll Through the Universe with This Cool Interactive Map

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Even the Largest Structures in the Universe Have a Magnetic Field



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The Universe Sparkles in Gamma Rays in this New NASA Animation



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Astronomers See Massive Stars Forming Together in Multiple Star Systems



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Here's the deal. In the center of every big galaxy is a big black hole, one so big we call it supermassive. When the Universe was young this central black hole formed along with its galaxy, and in many ways the two affect each other as they both grow. Over time, as the galaxy grows big, so does that beast in the middle.

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Black Hole Escaped a Galaxy, Started Forming Stars in Its Wake

Get a Wonderful Person Tee: Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a discovery of a strange line potentially created by an escaped supermassive black hole Links: Peter Cawdron's cool new book: Pieter van Dokkum The Conversation Why do black holes twinkle? We studied 5,000 star-eating behemoths to find out X-ray emission from a rapidly accreting narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy at z = 6.56 Serendipitous detection of a rapidly accreting black hole in the early Universe Liquid Metal Experiment Mimics Accretion Disks Can we surf black holes gravitational waves? • Surfing Gravitati... Black hole too big to exist: • New Discoveries F... Final parsec problem: • Final Parsec Prob... #supermassiveblackhole #astronomy #blackhole 0:00 Peter Cawdron's New Book! The Tempest (First Contact) 1:35 Black hole traveling between galaxies 3:35 Strange XBONGs - x ray bright black holes 4:35 Discovery of a super bright quasar 7:00 Formation of stars through shock waves 8:05 Galaxy that this came from 5:55 Altetrnative explanations 9:50 Twinkling black holes and how they work Twitter: Facebook: Twitch: Bitcoins to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! 1GFiTKxWyEjAjZv4vsNtWTUmL53HgXBuvu The hardware used to record these videos: CPU: Video Card: Motherboard: RAM: PSU: Case: Microphone: Mixer: Recording and Editing: Some of the above are affiliate links, meaning I would get a (very small) percentage of the price paid. Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships: Tybie Fitzhugh Viktor Óriás Les Heifner theGrga Steven Cincotta Mitchell McCowan Partially Engineered Humanoid Alexander Falk Drew Hart Arie Verhoeff Aaron Smyth Mike Davis Greg Testroet John Taylor EXcitedJoyousWorldly ! Christopher Ellard Gregory Shore maggie obrien Matt Showalter Tamara Franz R Schaefer diffuselogic Grundle Muffins Licenses used: Licenses by 4.0 Licenses by-sa 4.0 Licenses by 3.0 Licenses by-sa 3.0 Licenses by 2.5 Licenses by-sa 2.5 Licenses by 2.0 Licenses by-sa 2.0 Music in this video Learn more Listen ad-free with YouTube Premium Song After All Artist Geographer Album After All Licensed to YouTube by YouTube Audio Library, and 1 Music Rights Societies

Major Discoveries About Magnetic Fields In Nearby Galaxies

Good telescope that I've used to learn the basics: Get a Wonderful Person shirt: Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about magnetic fields of galaxies Links: Extragalactic Magnetism with SOFIA (SALSA Legacy Program). V. First Results on the Magnetic Field Orientation of Galaxies Survey of Extragaltic Magetism with sofia : The Evil Eye galaxy Milky way filaments from ancient fields (maybe): #galaxy #magneticfield #astronomy 0:00 Intro to galactic magnetic fields 1:00 How this was studied - SOFIA 1:50 Why magnetic fields are hard to study 2:40 Why this is important 4:10 Exact way this was seen with telescopes 6:10 Major findings 8:50 Remaining mysteries Patreon to help me make this a full time job: Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF Space Engine is available for free here: Enjoy and please subscribe. Twitter: Facebook: Twitch: The hardware used to record these videos: CPU: Video Card: Motherboard: RAM: PSU: Case: Microphone: Mixer: Recording and Editing: Some of the above are affiliate links, meaning I would get a (very small) percentage of the price paid. Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Images/Videos: M83: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Lopez-Rodriguez; NGC7331: NGC 7331: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona/E. Lopez-Rodriguez; M82: M82: NASA/SOFIA/E. Lopez-Rodriguez; NASA/Spitzer/J. Moustakas et al. Smouss CC BY 4.0 Licenses used: Licenses by 4.0 Licenses by-sa 4.0 Licenses by 3.0 Licenses by-sa 3.0 Licenses by 2.5 Licenses by-sa 2.5 Licenses by 2.0 Licenses by-sa 2.0





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