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.
Searching for dark matter in gaps between stars
Astronomers anticipate upcoming images of the Andromeda galaxy may hold vital clues.
Scientists discovered X-ray activity that sheds light on the evolution of galaxies
A novel galactic fossil.
The secret of our Milky Way lies within seismic ripples of an Ancient Galaxy
A team of astronomers has captured a new snapshot of an ancient galaxy, BRI 1335-0417, which is over 12 billion years old and the...
A high-resolution map of the Milky Way in 3D
The produced 3D map will be highly useful for a wide range of applications.
How do cosmic ray particles interact with the surrounding plasma?
The study finally explains why these supernova remnants shine in the radio and gamma rays.
A star in our Galaxy’s center born outside of the galaxy
10 billion year, 50,000 light-year journey to black hole.
Webb’s findings explain the dark galactic region
UF astronomers illuminate dark region of Milky Way.
A giant and extremely faint stream of stars spotted between galaxies
This line is ten times as long as our Milky Way.
1st detection of a rotating disc around a massive star outside the Milky Way
This is the most distant disc around a massive star ever to be directly detected.
Disc Around Young Star in Large Magellanic Cloud Discovered
In a remarkable discovery, astronomers have found a disc around a young star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy neighbouring ours. It’s the...
The second highest-energy cosmic ray ever detected
The particles are so high energy, they shouldn’t be affected by galactic and extra-galactic magnetic fields.