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Westerlund 1: An extreme concentration of stars drives a galactic-scale wind

An international team of scientists has just demonstrated, for the first time, a stream of particles escaping from a young, ...
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Milky Way's halo is filled with 'magnetic donuts' as wide as 100,000 light-years

The outer halo of the Milky Way is filled with magnetic fields that take the shape of vast donuts with diameters ranging from 12,000 to 100,000 light-years, with the heart of our galaxy at their ...
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First black hole discovered in Galactic Halo

Professor Phil Charles of the University of Southampton is part of an international team which has discovered a stellar mass black hole-the first ever found in our galactic halo. This region of space ...
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Dark matter nuggets may be lighting up the Milky Way

The Milky Way is glowing in ways it should not, and the usual suspects like stars, dust and black holes cannot fully account ...
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Giant Magnetic Halo Discovered Wrapped Around The Milky Way

Our little piece of the Universe is contained within a vast shell of dark matter. Though the space between the few isolated stars scattered throughout this largely invisible sphere seems empty, ...
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Seventy-year quest for galactic dark matter ends with discovery of population of cool white dwarfs in the halo of our galaxy

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The Halo Of The Milky Way Is Not The Shape We Thought It Was

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Astronomers find origins of "galactic cannibalism" with discovery of ancient dark matter halo

Astronomers have detected what they believe to be one of the earliest instances of "galactic cannibalism" — when one galaxy consumes one of its smaller neighbors — in an ultrafaint dwarf galaxy called ...
Inverse

Hubble finds a wall of hot plasma acting like a shield for two nearby galaxies

A guardian halo protects a galactic pair from the rough grasp of the Milky Way, according to archival data from two veteran space missions. In the southern sky shine two smudges, known as the Large ...
Digital Trends

Enormous halo of gas around Andromeda Galaxy mapped for the first time

Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have, for the first time, mapped out the enormous halo of gas around Andromeda, the nearest major galaxy to us. The faint but huge cloud of hot gas ...
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A Disturbance In The Outskirts Of The Halo Of The Milky Way May Give Insights Into The Nature Of Dark Matter

Illustration of our galaxy, the Milky Way seen obliquely, with the arms and the central bar in their approximate known locations. There are four major arms and one arm fragment (Orion-Cygnus or Local) ...