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 halo discovered around the ancient dwarf galaxy
Findings suggest the first galaxies in the universe were more massive than previously thought.
Astronomers discovered 8292 stellar streams in Milky Way
Its nearly 500 stars were born at the same time.
Super-Earth discovered near one of the oldest stars in the galaxy
The hot planet orbits its star twice during every Earth day.
Milky Way’s dark side revealed
First direct measurement of the average acceleration taking place within our home galaxy.
Large-scale bubbles found in the halo of the Milky Way
Gigantic hot gas structures above and below the Galactic disc are probably due to shock waves generated by past energetic activity in the center of our Galaxy.
A three-dimensional view of the Milky Way
The Apex telescope makes it possible to observe molecular clouds and star births in the galactic plane.
Deepest photo yet of galactic siblings
A treasure trove of data from the SMASH survey unveils the Magellanic Clouds in exquisite detail.
Our galaxy is being slowly pulled by neighboring galaxy
The long-held belief that the Milky Way, the galaxy containing Earth and the solar system, is relatively static has been ruptured by fresh cosmic insight.
Earth is 2,000 light-years closer to supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*
Earth faster, closer to black hole in new map of galaxy.
A ‘fossil galaxy’ hidden in the depths of our own Milky Way
It may have collided with the Milky Way ten billion years ago.
A blue ring nebula discovered with a star at its center
In the mysterious object, scientists see the fate of binary stars.
Ancient star’s orbits prompt rethink on Milky Way evolution
Australian telescope and European satellite combine to reveal unexpected motions among the galaxy's rarest objects.