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Posted by Bruce McClure, August 20, 2025 here. The Great Rift is the name for a long swath of gaseous clouds, darkening a stretch of the starry band of the Milky Way in our sky. The Milky Way is the edgewise view into our home galaxy. It has an estimated 100 to 400 billion stars. So […]
Continue ReadingBy: Steph Whiteside Posted: Aug 16, 2024 / 03:47 PM CDT Paragraphs below extract for personal use from https://www.wkrg.com/news/citizen-scientists-discover-object-soaring-out-of-the-galaxy (NewsNation) — Citizen scientists say they have discovered a fast-moving object on a trajectory to escape the Milky Way and shoot into intergalactic space. The citizen scientists used data from NASA’s WISE telescope to discover the object, which is moving at about […]
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