Gaia’s Galactic Cartography: Building the Most Detailed 3D Map of the Milky Way
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Gaia collaboration teams have published new data in the form of five Focused Product Releases. The results are…
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Dark Matter and Galactic Collisions: Harvard Astronomers Explain the Milky Way’s Mysterious Warp
Astronomers’ results bolster the hypothesis of how our galaxy evolved. The Milky Way is often depicted as a flat, spinning disk of dust, gas, and…
Stellar Surprise: Fountain of Youth in the Center of Our Galaxy “Shouldn’t Be Possible”
An international team has found that the IRS13 star cluster near our galaxy’s central black hole is surprisingly young. The discovery, made possible through decades…
Ghostlike Astronomical Messengers Reveal New View of Milky Way
For the first time, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has created an image of the Milky Way using neutrinos—minuscule, elusive particles of the cosmos. This revolutionary…
Astronomers “Stunned” by Discovery of Mysterious Filaments in Milky Way’s Center
Hundreds of horizontal filaments point toward our central supermassive black hole. New radio telescope images reveal hundreds of filaments along the galactic plane, each measuring…
Should Not Exist: Baby Star Found in Close Proximity to Milky Way’s Black Hole
A team of international researchers led by Dr. Florian Peißker at the Institute of Astrophysics at the University of Cologne has discovered a newly forming…
Mysterious Object Is Being Dragged Into the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
UCLA astronomers think the object, X7, might be debris cloud from a stellar collision. An object near the supermassive black hole at the center of…
Expanding Our Knowledge of the Early Universe: Three Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies Discovered
Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies have been discovered for the first time surrounding a Milky Way-sized galaxy, similar to those found within the Milky Way’s neighborhood. According…
“The Sparkler” – Astronomers Discover Distant Galaxy That Mirrors the Early Milky Way
A galaxy has been discovered that mirrors the very early version of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The galaxy, dubbed ‘The Sparkler’, is embedded…
Galactic Anomaly: The Milky Way Is Too Big for Its “Cosmological Wall”
Milky Way Discovered To Be More Unique Than Previously Thought Is the Milky Way special, or, at least, is it in a special place in…
Groundbreaking 3D Map of Cosmic Superbubble’s Magnetic Field Unveiled
Cosmic Superbubble’s Magnetic Field Charted in 3D for the First Time A first-of-its-kind map that could help answer decades-old questions about the origins of stars…
Dark Energy Camera Unveils Billions of Celestial Objects in Unprecedented Survey of the Milky Way
NSF’s NOIRLab releases colossal astronomical data tapestry displaying the majesty of our Milky Way in unprecedented detail. Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the…
Astronomers Find the Most Distant Stars in Milky Way’s Halo – Over 1,000,000 Light Years Away
A search for variable stars called RR Lyrae has found some of the most distant stars in the Milky Way’s halo a million light years…
Harvard Astronomers Have Revealed the True Shape of the Milky Way’s Halo of Stars
A recent study has unveiled the true shape of the diffuse cloud of stars surrounding the disk of our galaxy, known as the stellar halo….
“Reverse Shock” – Mysterious Gamma-Ray Emitting Bubbles Around the Center of Our Galaxy Explained
Evidence shows strong outflowing winds responsible for the “Fermi bubbles.” A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has shown that large gamma-ray emitting bubbles around the…
Cosmic Conundrum Cracked: Scientists Solve the Riddle of the Milky Way’s Satellite Galaxies
Astronomers say they have solved an outstanding problem that challenged our understanding of how the Universe evolved – the spatial distribution of faint satellite galaxies…
The Milky Way Is Mysteriously Rippling – Scientists Might Finally Know Why
Using data from the Gaia satellite telescope, a team headed by Lund University researchers in Sweden discovered that large parts of the Milky Way’s outer…
Astronomers Discover Oldest Planetary Debris in Our Galaxy – Remnants of Destroyed Solar System
A new study puts an age to a faint white dwarf star of over ten billion years Engulfed remains of recently orbiting planetesimals make this…