How Old is the Milky Way?
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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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The year 2067 seems so far in the future, doesn&#39;t it? Like some kind of light year, almost. Many of us will be long gone by then, but for most of today&#39;s 17-year-olds, the year 2067 will bring their 80th birthday.
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405 years, unmolested by science Scientists have dredged up the oldest known living creature and have called it Ming.â¦
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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 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 giant hydrogen gas cloud will create new stars when it hits our galaxy in 20-40 million years' time.
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PPARC -- A mystery lurking at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy - an object radiating high-energy gamma rays - has been detected by a team of UK astronomers working with international partners.     Their research, published today (September 22nd) in the Journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, was carried out using the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.), an array of four telescopes, in Namibia, South-West Africa...
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A long- sought-after Holy Grail for astronomers is a complete understanding of how galaxies such as the Milky Way formed. But since scientists believe
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Astronomers have spotted a faint cluster of stars in or near our galaxy, but they're not sure what to call the grouping.
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Astronomers have produced the first truly useful image ever of something in space using gamma rays. It's a picture only an astronomer could love, but it appears to help solve a century-long mystery.
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European Southern Observatory -- Anybody who visits a high-altitude astronomical observatory at this time of the year will be impressed by the beauty of the Milky Way band that stretches across the sky.     Compared to the poor views from cities and other human conglomerations, the dark and bright nebulae come into view together with an astonishing palette of clear stellar colours...
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PASADENA, Calif. - An orbiting NASA telescope that scans the heavens for ultraviolet light sources has found evidence of massive &quot;baby&quot; galaxies that runs counter to a belief that the aging universe is now only forming small new galaxies.
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It's a tremendous blank area in the universe -- nearly 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness. Astronomers are puzzling over the cosmic hole that has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter.
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The Milky Way is a vast, diverse neighborhood. If you're hoping to find Earthlike planets that may harbor life, you'll need to narrow the search. Stars are a good place to start, because the dusty discs around stars spawn young planets.
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US astronomers have discovered massive new galaxies evolving in our corner of the universe. This means that galaxy-forming processes thought to have ended eons ago continue relatively nearby
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Astronomers discovered three dozen baby galaxies in what passes for nearby space in the universe - two billion to four billion light-years distant.
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At least 7 and perhaps as many as 16 new planets have been found at the heart of the galaxy, leading astronomers to conclude that "there are literally billions of planets" in the Milky Way.