Not Long Ago, the Center of the Milky Way Exploded – Cataclysmic Blast of Energy and Radiation
Researchers find evidence of a cataclysmic flare that punched so far out of the galaxy its impact was felt 200,000 light years away. A titanic,…
Researchers find evidence of a cataclysmic flare that punched so far out of the galaxy its impact was felt 200,000 light years away. A titanic,…
This infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust full of bubbles, which are inflated by wind and radiation…
An international team of astronomers has discovered one of the largest features ever observed in the center of the Milky Way – a pair of…
New research led by astrophysicists at Durham University, UK, predicts that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) could hit the Milky Way in two billion years’…
ESA’s Gaia mission has made a major breakthrough in unraveling the formation history of the Milky Way. Instead of forming alone, our Galaxy merged with…
Astronomers from Lund University in Sweden have now found the explanation to a recent mystery at the center of the Milky Way galaxy: the high…
The Milky Way galaxy has died once before and we are now in what is considered its second life. Calculations by Masafumi Noguchi (Tohoku University)…
For thousands of years, people have been puzzling over the milky strip that extends across the entire firmament. In the modern era, Galileo Galilei discovered…
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…
A research team has published a new study led by Pat Roche, professor of astrophysics at The University of Oxford, and Chris Packham, associate professor…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…