Tag: milky way
Pinpointing Gaia to Map the Milky Way
Gaia, operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), surveys the sky from orbit to create the largest, most precise, three-dimensional map of our Galaxy....
Astronomers take first, high-resolution look at huge star-forming region of Milky Way
Astronomers from the United States and South Korea have made the first high-resolution, radio telescope observations of the molecular clouds within a massive star-forming...
Everything you wanted to know about the first ever image of a black hole
The Event Horizon Telescope has released the first direct image of a black hole and its neighbourhood. This black hole lurks in the centre...
![A photo of the DF2 galaxy (Image credit: NASA, ESA, and P. van Dokkum [Yale University])](https://www.techexplorist.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DF2-galaxy-218x150.jpg "New studies confirm existence of galaxies with almost no dark matter")
New studies confirm existence of galaxies with almost no dark matter
A Yale-led team of researchers is doubling down on its earlier finding of a galaxy with almost no dark matter.
In 2018, the researchers published...
Records of historical supernova found in Karnataka
Imagine walking at dusk under a blue sky that is gradually turning black. Twinkling stars are beginning to appear here and there. And suddenly...
Hubble & Gaia accurately weigh the Milky Way
The mass of the Milky Way is one of the most fundamental measurements astronomers can make about our galactic home. However, despite decades of...
Milky Way’s galactic collision with Andromeda to happen earlier than previously thought
According to a new study, the galactic collision of Milky Way with its largest neighbor, the starry Andromeda, will happen earlier than previously thought. The...
New technique more precisely determines the ages of stars
How old are each of the stars in our roughly 13-billion-year-old galaxy?
Current star-dating systems, in light of evaluations of stars in the prime or...
Nearby dwarf galaxy will hit milky way, wake up black hole
In a new study by Durham University, astrophysicists suggest that our solar system could get blasted into space after a newly-predicted collision with a...
