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Roman Space Telescope Set to Launch Sunday on SpaceX Falcon Heavy

A monthlong cruise to the Sun–Earth L2 point will be followed by about 100 days of in‑space deployment and mirror alignment so full science operations are targeted for January 2027.

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Hubble Study Finds Andromeda’s Star Formation Has Fell to a Fraction of Its Former Rate

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Simulations Suggest Milky Way Disk Flipped After Ancient 'Gaia Sausage' Collision

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Astronomers Identify Candidate Binary Supernova Pair Near Jellyfish Nebula

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Astronomers Detect First True Sugar in Interstellar Space

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Scientists Detect First Sugar in Interstellar Space

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Scientists Detect First True Sugar in Interstellar Cloud

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X‑Ray Echoes Show Two Outer Milky Way Arms About 10% Farther Than Thought

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TESS Detects First Planet by Gravitational Microlensing

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Rubin Observatory Begins 10‑Year Survey of the Southern Sky

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X‑Ray Echoes Push Two Outer Milky Way Arms About 10% Farther Out

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Euclid Releases Unprecedented High-Resolution Mosaic of the Milky Way Bulge

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Euclid Captures Largest High-Resolution Visible-Light Image of Milky Way’s Bulge

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Euclid Produces Largest Visible-Light Image of Milky Way Bulge, Resolving Over 60 Million Stars

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Euclid Releases Largest Visible‑Light Image of the Milky Way Center

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Study Reaffirms Cosmic Acceleration After Rebutting 2025 Deceleration Claim

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Astronomers Find Hot Wind Carving Cone from Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

Milky Way

Roman Space Telescope Set to Launch Sunday on SpaceX Falcon Heavy

Astronomers Discover S301, the Milky Way’s Fastest Star Orbiting Sagittarius A*

Fastest Known Star S301 Found on Tight Orbit Around Milky Way’s Black Hole

Milky Way Absorbed a Dwarf Galaxy About 11.8 Billion Years Ago

Hubble Study Finds Andromeda’s Star Formation Has Fell to a Fraction of Its Former Rate

Simulations Suggest Milky Way Disk Flipped After Ancient 'Gaia Sausage' Collision

Astronomers Identify Candidate Binary Supernova Pair Near Jellyfish Nebula

Astronomers Detect First True Sugar in Interstellar Space

Scientists Detect First Sugar in Interstellar Space

Scientists Detect First True Sugar in Interstellar Cloud

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X‑Ray Echoes Show Two Outer Milky Way Arms About 10% Farther Than Thought

TESS Detects First Planet by Gravitational Microlensing

Rubin Observatory Begins 10‑Year Survey of the Southern Sky

X‑Ray Echoes Push Two Outer Milky Way Arms About 10% Farther Out

Euclid Releases Unprecedented High-Resolution Mosaic of the Milky Way Bulge

Euclid Captures Largest High-Resolution Visible-Light Image of Milky Way’s Bulge

Euclid Produces Largest Visible-Light Image of Milky Way Bulge, Resolving Over 60 Million Stars

Euclid Releases Largest Visible‑Light Image of the Milky Way Center

Study Reaffirms Cosmic Acceleration After Rebutting 2025 Deceleration Claim

Astronomers Find Hot Wind Carving Cone from Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

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