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Yes, that's Earth.
New data suggests our galaxy may reside in an immense basin of gravitational attraction far larger than Laniākea.
Stars near the Milky Way's core may employ an exotic reaction involving dark matter to extended their lifetimes virtually indefinitely.
Some stars in the chaotic heart of the Milky Way consume one another and it makes them look young again.
A new view of the Milky Way sees through neutrinos.
Images from the Event Horizon Telescope prove that the compact radio source at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, is indeed a black hole.
The Milky Way isn't exactly a young buck.
With the Gaia observatory data, we know a recent merge happened in our galaxy.
The new observations are 20 times closer and sharper than ever before.
The signals don't match any known source. It could be an entirely new cosmic object.
If galaxies were human, GN-z11 would want you to get off its lawn.
The 10 billion-year-old fossil was named Heracles after the Greek Hero who was made immortal when the Milky Way was born.
Astronomers have discovered a free-floating planet, not associated with any parent star wandering our galaxy.
Shell-like structures in the Milky Way were created when a dwarf galaxy plunged through our galaxy’s heart around 3 billion years ago, new research suggests.
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning close-up image of comet NEOWISE, which recently captured the public’s imagination becoming visible in the night sky.
We might have to revise the commonly accepted image of planets orbiting a parent star.
The halo surrounding the Milky Way may be much hotter than originally thought.
The stars in the same triple system as the black hole are so close they can be seen with the naked eye.
Astronomers have identified a runaway star travelling at an incredible 6 million kilometres per hour, ejected by the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy 5 million years ago.
The Milky Way's shape resembles that of a hat with the brim down in front and up in back.
A brave star and a supermassive black hole confirm Einstein's theory of general relativity.
The new study explains why our galaxy doesn't travel with the expansion of the universe.
The study might help scientists understand how galaxies evolve.
Torque is warping the galaxy's outer disk in an S-shape.
And this could prove the perfect opportunity to identify the elusive form of matter.
The same should happen six billion years from now when the Milky Way merges with Andromeda.
These flares should correspond to the point of no return for the Milky Way's supermassive black hole.
Astronomers unravel a gruesome galactic murder... and we might be next!
The findings could topple our current understanding of how galaxies merge.
A breakthrough moment in astronomy.
Our galaxy still holds many secrets.
Scientists gain new insight into mysterious cloud formations traveling around the galaxy.
The Milky Way just got an ego boost.
If confirmed, this could indicate a remarkable progress in modern physics.
Surprisingly pure.
Drawn by gravity, a dwarf galaxy pair is leaving the void for a more crowded region of the universe.
The findings could reveal the location of the missing matter of our universe.
Of these planets, four are believed to potentially be similar to Earth.
Astronomers find the parent of an orphan planet. The finding makes the solar system the biggest in the galaxy.
The Milky Way has been around for at least 13.7 billion years, but it has its younger and older areas.
After five years of painstakingly stitching together pictures of the Milky Way, astronomers from Ruhr University Bochum have finally completed their masterpiece: the largest ever space photo. It has a whooping 46 billion megapixel and 194 GB in file size. It's so large, in fact, that the astronomers had to cut it in 268 sections for it be manageable.
It is generally accepted that our galaxy has a diameter of nearly 100,000 light-years. However, findings of a new research, published in the Astrophysical Journal, suggest that the Milky Way may actually be 50% larger than previously thought. The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy containing our solar system. From Earth, the Milky Way appears as a […]
Based on latest evidence and calculations, our entire galaxy, the Milky Way, might be a a huge wormhole, stable and navigable. Astrophysicists combined the equations from general relativity with a distribution of dark matter to reach this conclusion
Our sun is but a tiny speck of light among billions, part of the spiral galaxy we familiarly call the Milky Way. That in itself makes us puny humans feel extremely humble, but things get really out of proportion when you zoom out. Galaxies on their own turn congregate in the hundreds or even thousands, […]
In what’s considered the first find out of a slew to follow, a team of astronomers have identified a star that originated out of the same matter as our own sun. In lack of a better analogy, the two are siblings and probably share many more sisters. Apart from telling us where in the galaxy […]
The European Space Agency‘s billion-dollar star surveyor ‘Gaia’ is now in its operational orbit around a gravitationally stable virtual point in space, at about 1.5 million km from Earth. Gaia has been traveling to reach that point since December 19, following a spectacular launch from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Last night, the surveyor […]
There has been a debate over the number of spiral arms the Milky Way galaxies has, due to mixed results in the past. For years, it was believed the Milky Way had four spiral arms, but in 2008 readings from the Spitzer Space Telescope suggested it actually had only two. Wouldn’t you know it, a […]
Researchers have, for the first time, calculated the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy neighboring the Milky Way. Care to take a guess? According to these calculations, it’s just 163.000 light-years away. For measurements inside our solar system, researchers use a technique called parallax. Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent […]
In a novel and highly praised research, a team of astronomers have managed to estimate the mass of our host galaxy with unprecedented accuracy, findings suggesting it is in the order of 1,6 trillion suns. Astronomers estimate there are between 200 and 400 billion stars in the milky way. Estimating the mass of the Milky […]
The European Southern Observatory has captured and analyzed an image of the center of our galaxy which, if printed at normal resolution, would measure 9 x 7 meters. The enormous 9 gigapixel image features the very center of the Milky Way and was created not to be a background for huge screens, but to help […]
