Searching for “Bubbles” in the Milky Way
While looking over data from the Spitzer Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE) and Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer Galactic (MIPSGAL) surveys, volunteers have…
While looking over data from the Spitzer Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE) and Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer Galactic (MIPSGAL) surveys, volunteers have…
Using computer simulations, a team of astronomers found that when galaxies collide and form starbursts, the total number of star clusters decreases. Their research shows…
Scientists are studying the new images from the Planck mission to hopefully gain a better understanding of our galaxy. The images show previously undiscovered islands…
Astronomers believe that the supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A* located at the center of the Milky Way may be destroying a large number…
Astronomers have combined hundreds of images, including ones in the infrared spectrum, to provide the most detailed view of the Carina Nebula, a stellar nursery…
The Hubble Telescope unveiled an eerie twin galaxy to the Milky Way today. NGC 1073, a barred spiral galaxy like the Milky Way, is located…
In the past, astronomers had no evidence that there were planets orbiting other stars. Now, they estimate that the Milky Way might contain huge numbers…
According to a recently completed statistical study by an international team of astronomers, our galaxy has at least 100 billion planets. Gravitational microlensing was used…
NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has mapped the entire sky twice with infrared light giving us a large mosaic image that showcases a vast…
After over three decades in space, Voyager 1 is about to leave the Solar System and head into the uncharted territory of the Milky Way….