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  • Scientists Read A Galaxy's Entrails

    msnbc.com 1 week, 4 days ago

    Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Astronomers are taking a long, deep look at one of the best-known galaxies beyond our own Milky Way, to learn more about what happened when it gobbled up another agglomeration of stars that got too close.

  • Israeli Space Telescope On "Clean Room" Ice For Years; May Never See Launch

    forbes.com 5 days, 18 hours ago

    Israel isn?t the first place one turns when thinking of astronomy from space.?? In a country arguably living under existential threat, the assumption is that Israelis are more likely to be scanning the skies for incoming missiles than new windows onto the nearby universe. But to its credit, Israel?s small but vibrant astronomical research community ...

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The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains the Earth. This name derives from its appearance as a dim "milky" glowing band arching across the night sky, in which the naked eye cannot distinguish individual stars. The term "Milky Way" is a translation of the Classical Latin via lactea, from the Hellenistic Greek γαλαξίας κύκλος. The Milky Way appears like a band because it is a disk-shaped structure being viewed from inside. The fact that this faint band of light is made up of stars was proven in 1610 when Galileo Galilei used his telescope to resolve it into individual stars. In the 1920s, observations by astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies.

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