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Earth's Milky Way Neighborhood Gets More Respect
2013-07-15 03:35:48| rfglobalnet News Articles
Our Solar System's Milky Way neighborhood just went upscale. We reside between two major spiral arms of our home galaxy, in a structure called the Local Arm.
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Andromeda may have collided with Milky Way 10 billion years ago
2013-07-04 18:27:37| Extremetech
The coming collision of Andromeda with the Milky Way might just be a return trip. New research suggest a close encounter 10 billion years ago.
Astronomers estimate 100 billion habitable Earth-like planets in the Milky Way, 50 sextillion in the universe
2013-04-04 16:23:22| Extremetech
Astronomers at the University of Auckland claim that there are actually around 100 billion habitable, Earth-like planets in the Milky Way. There are roughly 500 billion galaxies in the universe, meaning there is somewhere in the region of 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 habitable planets. I'll leave you to do the math on whether one of those 50 sextillion planets has the right conditions for nurturing life or not.
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NASA says massive spiral galaxy is 5 times size of Milky Way
2013-01-10 23:12:00| CNET News.com
Stellar body known as NGC 6872 now holds the title of being the largest spiral galaxy known to science. [Read more]
Marvel at massive Milky Way energy emissions
2013-01-08 00:01:10| CNET News.com
Researchers snap a stunning photo of massive amounts of charged particles bursting from the center of the Milky Way galaxy. [Read more]
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