Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found quasi-periodic flickers in millimeter-waves from the…
Browsing: Milky Way
The Milky Way is the spiral galaxy that contains our Solar System, stretching over 100,000 light-years across and housing hundreds of billions of stars, along with vast amounts of gas, dust, and dark matter. Seen from Earth as a hazy band of light across the night sky, the Milky Way is both our cosmic home and a subject of intense astronomical study. Researchers use observations of its structure, motion, and composition to better understand galaxy formation, the life cycles of stars, and the distribution of dark matter. From its central supermassive black hole to its farthest halo stars, the Milky Way offers a rich laboratory for exploring the dynamics of galaxies.
Just like we orbit the sun and the moon orbits us, the Milky Way has…
Astronomers have pondered for years why our galaxy, the Milky Way, is warped. Data from…
An abundance of mysterious gamma radiation exists in the center of the Milky Way, called…
Is there dark matter at the center of the Milky Way? A new analysis puts…
Star-quake vibrations lead to new estimate for Milky Way age. Data gathered by NASA’s now…
A radio telescope in the Western Australian outback has captured a spectacular new view of…
International team detected radio bubbles with South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope. A gigantic, balloon-like structure has…
Our Milky Way is a thrifty galaxy. Supernovae and powerful stellar winds eject gas from…
Researchers find evidence of a cataclysmic flare that punched so far out of the galaxy…
This infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust…
An international team of astronomers has discovered one of the largest features ever observed in…
New research led by astrophysicists at Durham University, UK, predicts that the Large Magellanic Cloud…
ESA’s Gaia mission has made a major breakthrough in unraveling the formation history of the…
Astronomers from Lund University in Sweden have now found the explanation to a recent mystery…
The Milky Way galaxy has died once before and we are now in what is…
For thousands of years, people have been puzzling over the milky strip that extends across…
At first glance, this image may resemble red ink filtering through water or a crackling…