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On this day in 2024, the East Anglian Daily Times reported that an image of the Milky Way had been captured over one of Suffolk's most popular beaches. Jon Allard, an astronomical photographer, took ...

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Led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara, the team has discovered that the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, may be getting torn apart by the gravitation pull ...

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Astronomers using ALMA have discovered a new type of long, narrow “slim filaments” in the Milky Way’s central molecular zone, revealing surprising details about shock-induced material circulation near ...

The Local Group, which includes the Milky Way, has a peculiar velocity of about 627 kilometers per second. In the νHDM model, this value fits nicely within the predicted range, due to the way ...

Our long winter nights provide the perfect opportunity to rug up, look up, and take in the expansive starry sky, nocturnal wildlife and, if you're lucky, the Aurora Australis. To catch a glimpse of ...

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EAST AURORA, N.Y. — The East Aurora Fire Department responded to an emergency call for a working residential fire in the 300 block of Olean Road at 12:35 a.m. Monday. RELATED: Firefighters ...

known as the aurora borealis and aurora australis, respectively. Auroras are caused by large explosions of activity from the Sun, which throw out huge amounts of charged particles – called solar ...