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Hubble Solves Merger Mystery From Milky Way’s Early Years – NASA Science 0
- Astrophysics, Astrophysics Division, Galaxies, Globular Clusters, Goddard Space Flight Center, Hubble Space Telescope, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX, Star Clusters, The Milky Way
- August 17, 2026
About 12 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy known as LKH collided with a young Milky Way and merged with it. This artist’s concept portrays that collision. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope uncovered definitive evidence of this collision by studying globular star clusters. Illustration: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, grew
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NASA Hubble Discovers First of Star Cluster’s Missing Black Holes – NASA Science 0
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- July 13, 2026
The enormous globular star cluster Omega Centauri has baffled astronomers for decades. It should be full of black holes left by exploding stars, but the evidence for them is scarce. Now, astronomers using archival data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and supporting observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have finally located their first stellar-mass
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