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  • 7/22/2010 Triple-star System Passes near Milky Way's Central Black Hole Triple-star System Passes near Milky Way's Central Black Hole ... the star HE 0437-5439 acquired enough energy to be ejected from our Milky Way galaxy. In this scenario, a triple-star system, consisting of a close ... Image Type: Illustration
  • 11/3/1994 Astronomers Discover Nearby Spiral Galaxy Hidden Behind the Milky Way Astronomers Discover Nearby Spiral Galaxy Hidden Behind the Milky Way ... only ten million light-years away (or five times the distance of ... - closest city of stars to our Milky Way Galaxy), this newly discovered ... is hidden from view behind our Milky Way galaxy. It probably belongs ... Image Type: Astronomical
  • 7/22/2010 Going, Going, Gone: Star Leaves the Milky Way Going, Going, Gone: Star Leaves the Milky Way ... 0437-5439 has been tossed out of the center of our Milky Way galaxy with enough speed to escape the galaxy's ... The stellar outcast is rocketing through the Milky Way's distant outskirts at 1.6 million miles an ... Image Type: Illustration
  • 8/5/2004 Spiral Galaxy NGC 3949: A Galaxy Similar to the Milky Way Spiral Galaxy NGC 3949: A Galaxy Similar to the Milky Way ... pancake of stars deep within the disk of the Milky Way galaxy. Even from a distance, it is impossible ... pictured in the Hubble image, fit the bill. Like our Milky Way, this galaxy has a blue disk of young stars ... Image Type: Astronomical
  • 8/25/2011 Large-Scale Flows in the Milky Way Halo Large-Scale Flows in the Milky Way Halo ... diagram shows the large-scale flows of gas in the Milky Way halo of faint stars and hot gas. Using the Hubble ... ionized clouds responsible for flows of gas in the Milky Way halo. The invisible clouds were detected by ... Image Type: Illustration
  • 5/30/2012 Structure of Milky Way's Halo (Artist's Illustration) Structure of Milky Way's Halo (Artist's Illustration) This illustration shows the Milky Way galaxy's inner and outer halos. A halo is a spherical ... surrounding a galaxy. Astronomers have proposed that the Milky Way's halo is composed of two populations of stars. ... Image Type: Illustration
  • 5/31/2012 Crash of the Titans: Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way Collision Crash of the Titans: Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way Collision ... just before the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. About ... gravity begins to create tidal distortions in the Milky Way. The view is inspired by dynamical computer ... Image Type: Illustration
  • 5/31/2012 Collision Scenario for Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy Encounter Collision Scenario for Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy Encounter This illustration shows the inevitable collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy approximately 4 billion years from ... Image Type: Illustration
  • 4/4/2006 Nearby Dust Clouds in the Milky Way Nearby Dust Clouds in the Milky Way ... photographed similar dense knots of dust and gas in our Milky Way Galaxy. This cosmic dust, however, is not a nuisance. ... field. NGC 281 is located nearly 9,500 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Cassiopeia. ... Image Type: Astronomical
  • 5/31/2012 Nighttime Sky View of Future Galaxy Merger: 4 Billion Years Nighttime Sky View of Future Galaxy Merger: 4 Billion Years After its first close pass, Andromeda is tidally stretched out. The Milky Way, too, becomes warped. Science Illustration Credit: NASA, ESA, Z. Levay ... Image Type: Illustration
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