Despite being the place we call home, much about the Milky Way galaxy remains a mystery. That's partly due to its size — at 100,000 light years across, it's unfathomably massive, containing hundreds ...
For over a decade, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has mapped a mysterious excess of gamma-ray light in the inner regions ...
The Milky Way is often depicted as a flat, spinning disk of dust, gas, and stars. But if you could zoom out and take an edge-on photo, it actually has a distinctive warp — as if you tried to twist and ...
The SAGA Survey just published three new research articles that provide us with new insights into the uniqueness of our own Milky Way Galaxy after completing the census of 101 satellite systems ...
The Galaxy’s core isn't as densely packed with stars as models suggested, a study finds, aligning it more closely with similar spiral galaxies. Our Galactic home just got a remodel. Peering through ...
The Milky Way galaxy is like a gigantic ocean gyre or eddy that spins and wobbles around its center. But our home galaxy also has a colossal wave rippling through it, pulling and pushing an ocean of ...
A structure that resembles a fractured bone called G359.13142- 0.20005, near the centre of our Galaxy. (NASA/CXC/NRF/SARAO/SAO et al. via SWNS) By Dean Murray Astronomers have discovered a likely ...
The Milky Way's satellite galaxies are less typical than previously thought. Most Milky Way-like galaxies have star-forming satellite galaxies, unlike our own. The Milky Way's unique satellite galaxy ...
Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation emanating from the ...
At the center of our galaxy, there’s a mysterious, diffuse glow given off by gamma rays — powerful radiation usually emitted by high-energy objects such as rapidly rotating or exploding stars. NASA’s ...
UNDATED (WKRC) - Scientists captured the first-ever close-up picture of a star outside of the Milky Way galaxy, ushering in a new era of cosmic study. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) released ...
Ursa Major III, previously classified as a dwarf spheroidal galaxy due to its high mass, is proposed to be a compact star cluster located 32,600 light-years from the Milky Way. The research team ...