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Our Milky Way Might Not Crash Into the Andromeda Galaxy After All—New Simulations Suggest a 50-50 Chance of Merging
Astronomers have long thought the Milky Way was destined to merge with the nearby Andromeda galaxy. The aftermath of this ...
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The Milky Way may not collide with neighboring galaxy Andromeda after all: 'From near-certainty to a coin flip'
"The fact that there is only around a 50-50 chance of a merger was very surprising." ...
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AI could solve puzzles posed by twin stars in 'mere minutes or seconds on a single laptop'
To address this difficulty, astrophysicists from Villanova drafted in artificial intelligence (AI) in the hope that it could ...
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More than 50 years later, a failed Soviet spacecraft is about to return to Earth
Over 50 years, that orbit has lowered to only 1,240 miles (2,000km) at its farthest point. Now the atmosphere is dragging it back towards Earth with a predicted re-entry of May 10. You can get upd ...
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June 3, 1948: Hale Telescope dedicated
Today in the history of astronomy, the telescope proposed by George Ellery Hale in 1928 finally comes to fruition.