A New Catalog of the Visible Milky Way
Astronomers used IPHAS data to create a new catalog of the visible part of the Milky Way, revealing no fewer than 219 million stars. A…
Astronomers used IPHAS data to create a new catalog of the visible part of the Milky Way, revealing no fewer than 219 million stars. A…
This new image from the European Southern Observatory shows two dramatic star formation regions (NGC 3603 and NGC 3576) in the southern Milky Way. This…
Using the new Integral Field Unit instrument VIRUS-W in conjunction with the 2.7-meter Harlan J. Smith Telescope, astronomers discovered that stars at the centers of…
A new fingerprint-like map from the Planck Space Telescope reveals the magnetic field lines of the Milky Way galaxy, allowing astronomers to study the structure…
Using more than 2 million infrared snapshots taken over the past 10 years by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers created a new 360-degree mosaic of…
New research from the Gaia-ESO Survey shows that the inner regions of the Milky Way assembled faster than the outer regions, revealing that the Milky…
By using the distribution of young massive stars to probe the structure of the Milky Way, astronomers have reaffirmed that our galaxy has four spiral…
In a newly published study, researchers from the University of Rochester use computer simulations to show how the stars at the center of the Milky…
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, a newly published study reveals the first visual evidence of how the Milky Way has evolved over the…
Using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, astronomers discovered a magnetic field deep in…
Astronomers have discovered that Milky Way makes small wobbling or squishing movements, acting like a huge flag fluttering in the wind. 22 October 2013. Astronomers…
Set to launch on November 20th, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft will create a highly accurate 3D map of the Milky Way Galaxy by repeatedly observing a…
Astronomers have completed the largest-ever survey of dense gas clouds in the Milky Way, cataloging and mapping more than 6,000 gas clouds and allowing astronomers…
Using ESO data, two groups of scientists have produced detailed three-dimensional images of the stars that form the inner regions of our Milky Way. Two…
Using Hubble observations, a new study from the University of Manchester has found that bipolar planetary nebulae located towards the central bulge of our Milky…
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers found that less than 1% of the material in the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole’s gravitational grasp…
A new study suggests that Andromeda crashed into the Milky Way roughly 10 billion years ago, explaining the observed structure of the two galaxies and…
A team of astronomers used Hubble to precisely measure the sideways motions of a small sample of stars located far from the galaxy’s center, shedding…