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Oxygen detected in another galaxy the Milky Way for the first time
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Oxygen detected in another galaxy the Milky Way for the first time

Oxygen has been recognized outside the home galaxy the Milky Way for the first time. Molecules of oxygen have been followed to a strange and distant galaxy a huge number of light-years away. The oxygen was revealed in Markarian 231, which is powered by an "extremely bright" nucleus. Markarian 231 is a wild and highly volatile galaxy that everyone despite everything knows almost no about. Be that as it may, the secret galaxy presently seems to help the presence of oxygen – boosting comprehension of the distant universe. “With deep observations towards Markarian 231…we detected [oxygen] emission in [an] external galaxy for the first time,” researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences wrote. “The detected [oxygen] emission is located in regions about 32,615 light-ye...
Star launched out from the center of Milky Way is going at unimaginable speed
Science

Star launched out from the center of Milky Way is going at unimaginable speed

A solitary star traveling at blistering speed is on track to be ejected from the Milky Way galaxy and into intergalactic space. Astronomers think the monstrous black hole at the center of the galaxy propelled it, and it affirms a theory they've since quite a while ago held however always been unable to see up to this point. The cosmologists, whose discoveries are published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, say the star is traveling at 3.7 million mph (1,027 miles per second) — around 10 times quicker than the majority of the stars in the galaxy. “The velocity of the discovered star is so high that it will inevitably leave the Galaxy and never return,” co-author Douglas Boubert of the University of Oxford, said in a statement. For perspective, the...