Researchers have mapped the magnetic fields in a Milky Way spiral arm, discovering significant variations from previous galactic models. This groundbreaking study, leveraging advanced telescopes…
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The image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, shows a high-resolution view of the innermost parts of the Milky Way. In the new…
A new study based on Gaia satellite data reveals that dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way are likely transient and not as dark matter-rich as…
Gaia is creating an extraordinarily precise three-dimensional map of more than a billion stars throughout our Milky Way galaxy and beyond. It is mapping their…
Harvard astronomers suggest the Milky Way’s warped shape is due to an irregular dark matter halo. This supports theories of a past galactic collision and…
Researchers have discovered that the star cluster IRS13 near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* in our galaxy is much younger than anticipated. This challenges…
The Galactic center at a distance of about 30000 light years. In the center of the image is the supermassive black hole Sgr A* (not…
Researchers discovered the first ultra-faint dwarf galaxies to be found around a spiral galaxy with the mass of the Milky Way that’s outside of the…
A lonely Milky Way analog galaxy, too massive for its wall. The background image shows the distribution of dark matter (green and blue) and galaxies…
Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects —…
This illustration shows the Milky Way galaxy’s inner and outer halos. A halo is a spherical cloud of stars surrounding a galaxy. Credit: NASA, ESA,…
NASA visualization of the Milky Way’s Fermi bubbles. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC Evidence shows strong outflowing winds responsible for the “Fermi bubbles.” A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan…
One of the new high-resolution simulations of the dark matter enveloping the Milky Way and its neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy. The new study shows that…
An artist’s conception of the Milky Way. Using data from the Gaia satellite telescope, a team headed by Lund University researchers in Sweden discovered that…
Artist’s impression of the old white dwarfs WDJ2147-4035 and WDJ1922+0233 surrounded by orbiting planetary debris, which will accrete onto the stars and pollute their atmospheres.…
Split view of the visible Milky Way galaxy versus its galactic underworld. Credit: University of Sydney A new study creates the first map of our…
Astronomers have spotted signs of a ‘hot spot’ orbiting Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Astronomers have spotted signs of…
In this illustration, stars are seen to be in close orbit around the supermassive black hole that lurks at the center of the Milky Way,…
This is an illustration of a close-up look at a black hole drifting through our Milky Way galaxy. The black hole is the crushed remnant…
One of the surprising discoveries coming out of Gaia data release 3, is that Gaia is able to detect starquakes – tiny motions on the…