... astronomers with a paradox: it holds young stars, but no one is sure how those stars got there. The galactic center is wracked with powerful gravitational tides stirred by a 4 million solar-mass ...
... . Four years later, it yielded some intriguing data: An unusually high number of gamma-ray photons from the galactic center carried the same energy—a particular, significant energy— ...
... a research team has found the elusive carbon stars in the galactic center.
"The dust surrounding the stars emits very ... Perea-Calderón of the European Space Astronomy Center in Villanueva de la Cañada, ...
... the plane of the Galaxy and about 40 degrees along the plane of the galaxy on either side of the galactic center. It appeared to be diffuse.
One interpretation of the Galactic X-ray ridge was that ...
Astronomers have at last uncovered newborn stars at the frenzied center of our Milky Way galaxy.
Astronomers have at last uncovered newborn stars at the frenzied center of our Milky Way galaxy. The discovery was made using the infrared vision of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Astronomers have at last uncovered newborn stars at the frenzied center of our Milky Way galaxy.
A dramatic new vista of the center of the Milky Way galaxy from NASA's Chandra X-ray ... exposes new levels of the complexity and intrigue in the Galactic center. The mosaic of 88 Chandra pointings ...
... collection of about 400 billion stars including the Sun. Many of those stars and much of the dense gas between the stars concentrate into large arms that spiral outward from the galactic center.
... Kartik Sheth of NASA's Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, has found that bars tripled ... force a large amount of gas towards the galactic center, fueling new star formation ...
... his colleague, Avery Broderick, examined how ultra-high-resolution imaging of the galactic center could be used to look for the shadow or silhouette of the supermassive black hole lurking there, as ...
... arms end about 10,000 light-years from the galaxy's center. (The sun is located about 25,000 light-years from the galactic center.) One of these arms has been known for a long time, but has ...
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The theory that black hole binaries gravitationally slingshot the stars out of galactic centers has been the popular but unproved explanation. No telescope observations provided compelling evidence ...
The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of our galaxy is a giant complex of molecular gas and dust situated in the innermost 700 light-years of the Milky Way. Although the galaxy is over 100,000 light-years ...
New image of spiral galaxy NGC 4945 shows star formation, active galactic center.
