New All-Sky Map of Milky Way’s Outer Reaches Released – Could Offer a New Test of Dark Matter Theories
The highlight of the new chart is a wake of stars, stirred up by a small galaxy set to collide with the Milky Way. The…
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Hubble Shows Us the Future: A Galactic Collision
Sometime in the far distant future, about 4 billion years from now, our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as illustrated…
Mysteries of the Milky Way Are Revealed in Spectacular Detail
Astronomers are Bulging with Data Star-studded image shows the glittering central parts of the Milky Way For the first time, over 250 million stars in…
The Milky Way May Be Swarming With Planets That Have Continents and Oceans Like Earth
According to a new study from the University of Copenhagen, Earth, Venus, and Mars were created from small dust particles containing ice and carbon. The…
“Still Shaking” – A Warp in the Milky Way Linked to Galactic Collision
When most of us picture the shape of the Milky Way, the galaxy that contains our own sun and hundreds of billions of other stars,…
All 468 Stars in Milky Way Stellar Stream Theia 456 Are Related – “It’s Like Finding a Needle in a Haystack”
Examination of Theia 456 finds its nearly 500 stars were born at same time. The Milky Way houses 8,292 recently discovered stellar streams — all…
Milky Way’s Dark Side Revealed by Measurements of Pulsar Acceleration
It is well known that the expansion of the universe is accelerating due to a mysterious dark energy. Within galaxies, stars also experience an acceleration,…
Scientists Peer Into the 3D Structure of the Milky Way and Observe Star-Forming Processes in Unprecedented Detail
Survey of the sky pushes the boundaries of what we know about the structure of our galaxy. Scientists from Cardiff University have helped produce a…
Bulge Fossil Fragments: Astrophysicists Discover Primordial Clumps of Gas and Stars Around the Center of the Milky Way
Just as archaeologists dig hoping to find traces of the past, an international group of astrophysicists managed to get into the thick cloud of dust…
To the Milky Way’s Anticenter and Beyond: Gaia’s New Detailed Data From More Than 1.8 Billion Stars
The motion of stars in the outskirts of our galaxy hints at significant changes in the history of the Milky Way. This and other equally…
Earth 16,000 MPH Faster, 2000 Light-Years Closer to Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way
Earth just got 7 km/s (~16,000 mph) faster and about 2000 light-years closer to the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way…
Milky Way Is Being Twisted and Deformed With Extreme Violence by the Gravitational Force of the LMC’s Dark Matter Halo
The long-held belief that the Milky Way, the galaxy containing Earth and the solar system, is relatively static has been ruptured by fresh cosmic insight….
Kraken Reveals Itself: Astrophysicists Reconstruct the Galaxy Merger History of Our Home Galaxy
Milky Way Family Tree Galaxies like the Milky Way formed by the merging of smaller progenitor galaxies. An international team of astrophysicists led by Dr….
Unexpected Orbits of Ancient Stars Prompt Rethink on Milky Way Evolution
Australian telescopes and European satellite combine to reveal unexpected motions among the Galaxy’s rarest objects. Theories on how the Milky Way formed are set to…
Astronomers Discover New “Fossil Galaxy” Buried Deep Within the Hidden Depths of Our Own Milky Way
Scientists working with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys’ Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) have discovered a “fossil galaxy” hidden in the…
Slow Spin of the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
Researchers from CIERA and the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian put a limit on the spin of the supermassive black hole in the…
Where Does the Missing Matter of the Universe Reside? Halo of Gas Surrounding Milky Way May Help Solve Puzzle
A halo is a large region filled with hot gas that surrounds a galaxy, also known as a “circumgalactic medium.” The heated gaseous halo around…
First of Their Kind “Shell Structures” Found in Milky Way – Evidence of Galactic Collision
Evidence of broadside collision with dwarf galaxy discovered in Milky Way. Nearly 3 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy plunged into the center of the…