Milky Way 'ancestors' discovered
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Astronomers have found ancient galaxies that appear to be the building blocks of our own Milky Way.
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An international team of astronomers has suceeded solving the 100 yearl old mystery about the origin of the cosmic rays by producing the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays.
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Astronomers are rubbing their eyes after discovering that a galaxy assumed to have been a giant for the past 23 years is in fact a dwarf, according to new observations.
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Scientists reconstruct part of the genetic code of a 75-million-year-old mammal ancestor.
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An examination of distant stellar explosions shows that the mysterious force, which many think is causing the universe to expand, dates back at least 9 billion years.
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A recent article in New Scientist magazine, entitled â Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away,â implies that the UC Berkeley SETI@home project has uncovered a very convincing candidate
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neutron_p writes &quot;An international team of astronomers has produced the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays, helping to solve a 100 year old mystery - an origin of cosmic rays.
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NEW YORK Humans might know that the universe is thought to be 15 billion years old, or that the Milky Way was formed 13 billion years ago, but the way we feel about ourselves in relation to a 4.5 billion-year-old earth is not much different from the way
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A professor has found a pictorial representation of Hipparchus' star catalog, the long-lost, earliest known compendium of the night sky.
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Billions of years after a galactic &quot;baby boom,&quot; a NASA spacecraft has detected dozens of newborn galaxies in the Earth&#39;s part of the universe.
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Recent observations have uncovered evidence that helps to confirm the identification of the remains of one of the earliest stellar explosions recorded by humans. The new study shows that the supernova remnant RCW 86 is much younger than previously thought.
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The mystery of how the darkest galaxies in the Universe came to exist may be solved.
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A new archaeological discovery suggests humans migrated to the hemisphere far earlier than previously thought.
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Astronomers have found what they believe to be several of the earliest star-forming galaxies, in a detailed analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images released earlier this year.
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Observations by an international team of astronomers with the UVES spectrometer on ESO's Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory (Chile) have thrown new light on the earliest epoch of the Milky Way galaxy.
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Scientists said on Wednesday that   they have found the most distant galaxy yet, nearly 13 billion   light-years away, in a discovery that could help explain how   stars were formed at the dawn of time.
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A NASA observatory discovers dozens of 'baby' galaxies in our midst. Scientists say the newborns could tell us a lot about our own aging Milky Way. By Amit Asaravala.