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The Milky Way

Fact Impact - The Milky Way

... around 400 billion stars Many of them suns like our own, surrounded by their own planetary systems. The Milky Way is shaped like two fried ...

Figure 1: The Andromeda Galaxy

Fact Impact - Galaxies

... we've known that there are other galaxies beyond our own And now it's thought the visible Universe contains ... those first galaxies would have been much smaller than our own Milky Way, perhaps ten thousand times smaller. Bigger ...

Searching for extrasolar planets

... it was a big question 20 years ago.  We had only our own planets at that time and the big question is, are we ... we have not really found a planet or a system like our own solar system. Chris -   Like the Earth is what you mean. ... technology that we have available today, look towards our own solar system, what would we be able to understand about ...

Figure 1: The Andromeda Galaxy

The ALMA Telescope, Solar Orbiter, Autistic Mice and Chivalrous Crickets.

... first whilst they waited outside, increasing their own risk of predation and putting their own lives at risk. But as a reward, these males got to mate ...

An image of a spiral galaxy

JuMBOs: a newly discovered cosmic formation

... when they are dense enough, they collapse under their own gravity, get denser and denser and eventually form an ...