Milky way
The Milky Way is a huge collection of several hundred billion stars, dust, and gas. It is a spiral galaxy that is about 13.6 billion years old. The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes our Solar System. The Solar System is located at a radius of about 27,000 light-years from the galaxy’s center. The galaxy is rotating, and it takes us about 240 million years to complete one circle around its middle.
Dark matter and massive galaxies
Dark matter is a hypothetical invisible mass thought to be responsible for adding gravity to galaxies and other bodies. However, the nature of dark...
Why our galaxy, the Milky Way, is warped?
Accurately, the study of galactic warps and their dynamic nature could reveal vital information on the formation history of galaxies and the mass distribution...
Large amounts of oxygen detected in the ancient star’s atmosphere
Very unusual chemical composition in ancient star’s atmosphere.
A class of strange objects detected near our home galaxy’s black hole
These objects are unresolved.
A new infrared image reveals our galactic center’s most massive stars
Flying Observatory Maps Our Galaxy
Hubble Telescope captured a view of a majestic spiral galaxy
To kickstart the 30th anniversary year of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble has imaged a majestic spiral galaxy. Galaxy UGC 2885 may be...
Galactic Pyrotechnics from 23 million light-years away
NGC 4258 is relatively close to Earth, astronomers can study how this black hole is affecting its galaxy in great detail.
ESO telescope observed the central part of the Milky Way
It uncovered new details about the history of star birth in our galaxy.
Astronomers discovered most distant galaxy ever
The light from MAMBO-9 traveled about 13 billion years to reach ALMA’s antennas.
Scientists finally calculated the mass of our milky way
Scientists used sophisticated models to calculate the mass of the Milky Way.