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An intriguing spiral structure surrounding a pulsing red giant star may be offering a preview of how the sun will behave at the end of its life. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array ...

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The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are on a collision course, predicted to merge in approximately 5 billion years, forming a new galaxy dubbed Milkomeda. Supercomputer simulations suggest this ...

A strange spiral in the night sky was caught on camera above Norway in northern Europe this week, mystifying onlookers. One picture was snapped by an observer named Bettina Begtoft last week, just ...

A long-standing scientific belief holds that stars tend to hang out in the same general part of a galaxy where they originally formed. Some astrophysicists have recently questioned whether that is ...

At larger scales, things get a little more complicated. Our galaxy is part of a collection of galaxies called the Local Group, which includes the Milky Way; the Andromeda galaxy; a smaller spiral ...

Space scientists have captured a never-before-seen cosmic spiral. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken a jaw-dropping ...

A weird blue spiral of light, captured on photo in the night sky? As much as we might want it to be, we know by now that it's not aliens (it's never aliens, OK?). But little green men aside, the ...