Gaia’s stellar motion for the next 400 thousand years. The stars are in constant motion. To the human eye this movement – known as proper…
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Position and velocity map of the Milky Way Galaxy. Arrows show position and velocity data for the 224 objects used to model the Milky Way…
The long-held belief that the Milky Way, the galaxy containing Earth and the solar system, is relatively static has been ruptured by fresh cosmic insight.…
Milky Way Family Tree Galaxies like the Milky Way formed by the merging of smaller progenitor galaxies. An international team of astrophysicists led by Dr.…
Representation of the orbit of the star 232121.57-160505.4 in the Galactocentric cartesian frame, colour coded according to the time. The white dot represents the current…
An artist’s impression of what the Milky Way might look like seen from above. The colored rings show the rough extent of the fossil galaxy…
This image is part of a simulation showing the orbits of stars very close to the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky…
The Milky Way Galaxy is seen in this illustration. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Caltech) A halo is a large region filled with hot gas that surrounds…
Stars identified in the research have formed “shell structures” in the aftermath of a radial merger occurring 3-billion years ago. Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Evidence…
A mini satellite designed and built at the University of Iowa has determined the Milky Way galaxy is surrounded by a heated, clumpy halo of…
Massive Magellanic Cloud Halo Discovery Finally Explains Stream of Gas Swirling Around the Milky Way
A view of the gas in the Magellanic System as it would appear in the night sky. The Magellanic Corona covers the entire sky while…
An international team of researchers has discovered a dense, cold gas that’s been shot out from the center of the Milky Way “like bullets.” Exactly…
Still from a simulation of individual galaxies forming, starting at a time when the Universe was just a few million years old. Credit: Hopkins Research…
Scientific Red Flag Spotted Milky Way’s Dark, Dusty Center – Oddity Moving in the Direction of Earth
Scientific ‘Red Flag’ Reveals New Clues About Our Galaxy Figuring out how much energy permeates the center of the Milky Way — a discovery reported…
One of the biggest and longest-standing questions in the history of human thought is whether there are other intelligent life forms within our Universe. Obtaining…
A still image from a simulation of the formation of dark matter structures from the early universe until today. Gravity makes dark matter clump into…
Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, in the process revealing the composition, formation, and evolution…
Hot spots circling around the black hole could produce the quasi-periodic millimeter emission detected with ALMA. Credit: Keio University Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…
A still image from a simulation of the formation of dark matter structures from the early universe until today. Gravity makes dark matter clump into…
An abundance of mysterious gamma radiation exists in the center of the Milky Way, called the Galactic Center GeV Excess. Previous research determined that this…