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.
Hubble mapped envelope of gas around Andromeda galaxy
This tenuous, nearly invisible halo of diffuse plasma extends 1.3 million light-years from the galaxy.
Scientists observed the fastest moving star ever
It is travelling approximately 8% of the speed of light.
Mysterious gas detected near the center of Milky way
This is the first time something like this has been observed in our galaxy.
Galaxy that looks more like our Milky Way
Galaxy is distorted, appearing as a ring of light in the sky.
Astronomers discovered a mysterious stream of ancient stars
Scientists find a remnant of a strange dismembered star cluster at the galaxy's edge.
Stunning view of a Milky Way-like galaxy with a huge magnetic field
The galaxy lies about 67 million light years away in the Ursa Major constellation.
Scientists detected a new organic molecule in our galaxy’s molecular cloud
In the molecular cloud known as G+0.693-0.027, which lies close to the Galactic center, scientists have identified a new molecule called propargylimine. According to...
There are almost 6 billion earth-like planets present in our galaxy
For centuries, humans have wondered whether Earth is unique in the universe, or if similar planets exist out there.
The planets considered Earth-like are rocky...
New model tells the behavior of the black hole at the center of our galaxy
Milky Way hosts a supermassive black hole at its center called Sagittarius A*.
A new study by the University of California - Santa Barbara, aimed...
Most long-lived heartbeat ever seen in a black hole
In 2007, scientists detected a black hole's heartbeat at the center of a galaxy called RE J1034+396. The universe is almost 600 million light-years...
Snowflakes in space?
NGC 6441 is a 13-billion-year-old collection of galaxies existing in the southern constellation of Scorpius. It lies some 44,000 light-years away from Earth and 13,000 light-years from...