Astronomers have discovered the youngest known supernova in the Milky Way galaxy. Created by the death of a star, a new supernova appears in a spiral galaxy only about once a century
Like a team of forensic detectives in a television show that could be called "CSI: Milky Way," a University of Chicago astrophysicist and his associates are piecing together how a mysterious infrared ...
... Telescope (GBT) to go prospecting in a rich molecular cloud in our Milky Way Galaxy. They seek to discover new, complex molecules in interstellar space that may be precursors to life.
New images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are shedding light on the true structure of the Milky Way, revealing that it has just two major arms of stars instead of the four it was previously ...
... or surveying a patch of land on foot. In contrast, mapping the Milky Way galaxy is a tremendous challenge. The distances are too large to travel, making bird's-eye views or direct ...
The Milky Way Galaxy has lost weight. A lot of weight. About a trillion Suns' worth, according to an international team of scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II), whose discovery has ...
Scientists are prospecting in a rich molecular cloud in our Milky Way Galaxy. They seek to discover new, complex molecules in interstellar space that may be precursors to life. As molecules rotate and ...
The new moon makes this a great time to check out the midsummer Milky Way.
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"We can make comparisons with the dwarf galaxies and stellar streams associated with the Milky Way. The appearance of these stellar systems is closely linked to the substructure of the dark matter ...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey results ID smaller stellar streams and dwarf galaxies in Milky Way's halo.
... set basic parameters to mimic the development of the Milky Way to that point, but then let the simulated galaxy ... orbit would become more erratic in the same way that a car's wheel might become wobbly ...
... of the Cepheids considered. "This result, if generalised to all Cepheids, implies that the rotation of the Milky Way is simpler than previously thought, and is certainly symmetrical about an axis," ...
... than any other seen before. Even before the existence of the Milky Way.
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful and brightest explosions of energy in our universe. They last only a ...
BONN, Germany, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- A German-led team of astrophysicists says observations of a special class of variable stars resolves a dispute about the rotation of the Milky Way galaxy.
... light-years.
To build this unparalleled picture of the Milky Way's heart and calculate the orbits of the individual ... Way's centre so fast that it completed one full revolution within the 16-year period ...
