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.
A spectacular new view of the center of the Milky Way galaxy
Outback telescope captures Milky Way center.
Milky Way’s big black hole just kicked a superfast star out of the galaxy
This star is travelling at record-breaking speed - 10 times faster than most stars in the Milky Way, including our Sun.
Scientists discovered smallest black hole ever
Astronomers studying black holes in our galaxy, the Milky Way, have discovered what they believe to be a new type of black hole- the smallest black hole ever.
An unexplained surplus of gas flowing into our home galaxy
The new gas could be coming from the intergalactic medium.
Scientists created a high frame-rate movie of a growing black hole
Violent flaring revealed at the heart of a black hole system.
Our Milky Way galaxy is on collision course with nearby Andromeda galaxy
The violent history of the big galaxy next door.
Towering balloon-like features discovered near center of the Milky Way
The result of a phenomenally energetic burst that erupted near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole a few million years ago.
Busy older stars outpace stellar youngsters, study
Older stars are move active because they have been around the longest, and because they were formed during a period when the Galaxy was a bit more violent, with lots of star formation happening and lots of disturbance from gasses and smaller satellite galaxies.
Scientists discovered the largest observed black hole to date
Scientists have found the largest black hole ever observed at the center of Holm 15A, a galaxy about 700 million light-years away.
Anatomy of a Cosmic Seagull
Colourful and wispy, this intriguing collection of objects is known as the Seagull Nebula, named for its resemblance to a gull in flight. Made...
A unique three-dimensional map of the Milky Way
The most detailed three-dimensional map of the Milky Way has been revealed, showing that our galaxy is not a flat disc but has a warped shape.
Pinpointing Gaia to Map the Milky Way
Gaia, operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), surveys the sky from orbit to create the largest, most precise, three-dimensional map of our Galaxy....