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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
Astronomers say they have solved an outstanding problem that challenged our understanding of how the Universe evolved – the spatial distribution of faint satellite galaxies…
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…
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…