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.
New work reveals the likely original locations of Saturn and Jupiter
Where were Jupiter and Saturn born?
There could be almost 300 million potentially habitable planets in our galaxy
Some could even be pretty close.
Smallest Earth-sized free-floating planet found in milky way
An Earth-sized rogue planet discovered in the Milky Way.
Our Milky Way galaxy is surrounded by a clumpy halo of hot gases
The Milky Way galaxy is in the recycling business.
Astronomers determined the spin of the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way
The Spin of the Supermassive Black Hole in our Galaxy.
Milky Way has been accreting star clusters over its lifetime
Fast-rotating stars at the centre of the Milky Way could have migrated from the outskirts of the galaxy.
Our solar system has a second alignment plane
This has important implications for models of how comets originally formed in the solar system.
First direct distance measurement to magnetar within our Milky Way Galaxy
A measurement that could help determine if magnetars are the sources mysterious Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs).
18 very metal-poor stars detected in the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy
One of the stars from the sample has an extremely low metallicity, slightly below -3.0.