ESA Image of the Week – The Heart of the Milky Way
At first glance, this image may resemble red ink filtering through water or a crackling stream of electricity, but it is actually a unique view…
Milky Way
Astronomers Capture Clearest Infrared Image To Date of the Center of the Milky Way
A research team has published a new study lead by Pat Roche, professor of astrophysics at The University of Oxford, and Chris Packham, associate professor…
Outer Halo of the Milky Way Contains Stellar Remains of Devoured Galaxies
An international team of astronomers led by Giuseppina Battaglia, researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), finds signs that the outer halo of…
Astronomers Map the Spiral Structure on the Far Side of the Milky Way
Using the Very Long Baseline Array, astronomers achieve record measurement for an improved picture of the Milky Way. Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for…
Milky Way Might Not Be as “Typical” as Previously Thought
New research from Yale University and the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) Survey reveals that the Milky Way might not be as “typical” as previously…
Astronomers Discover White Dwarf Stars in the Disc of the Milky Way
A team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has discovered white dwarf stars in the disc of the Milky Way galaxy, and measured…
ESO Image of the Week – The Center of the Milky Way Crossed by Zodiacal Light
This newly released ESO image shows the center of the Milky Way crossed by the eerie glow of zodiacal light. The sky is full of…
Astrophysicists Show Milky Way Had a Blowout Bash 6 Million Years Ago
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that the center of the Milky Way was once a very active place. The center of…
Hubble Discovers Two Dwarf Galaxies Moving into the Milky Way
A team of astronomers has discovered two dwarf galaxies that have traveled from the remote hinterlands of space to the Milky Way. NASA’s Hubble Space…
Astronomers Reveal the Rotation of the Hot Gas Around the Milky Way
A team of astronomers has discovered that the hot gas in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning in the same direction and…
WISE Reveals the X-Shaped Bulge of the Milky Way
Using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission, astronomers reveal that the Milky Way’s central bulge of stars forms an “X” shape. The…
Journey to the Center of the Milky Way
Using Hubble, astronomers peer through the dust which normally obscures the view of the center of the Milky Way. Peering deep into the heart of…
Astronomers Take A Closer Look at the Milky Way’s Central Molecular Zone
New research confirms that the Milky Way’s Central Molecular Zone is not centered on the black hole, but is offset; they also confirm that the…
Astronomers Complete the ATLASGAL Survey of Milky Way
Astronomers have completed the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL). A spectacular new image of the Milky Way has been released to…
Astronomers Detect Signs of an Invisible Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way
Using the Nobeyama Radio Telescope, a team of astronomers has detected signs of an invisible black hole with a mass of 100 thousand times the…
Astronomers Use G1 and G2 to Probe the Accretion Flow Feeding Sgr A*
New research uses the G1 and G2 gas clouds to probe the accretion flow feeding Sgr A∗. The center of our Milky Way galaxy, about…
Astronomers Reveal the “Skeletal Structure” of the Milky Way
Using infrared surveys from the Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have identified ten new filamentary dark clouds in the Milky Way and are looking for more…
Hubble Uncovers the Blueprints of Our Galaxy’s Early Construction Phase
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope to conduct a “cosmic archaeological dig” at the very heart of our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have uncovered…