milky way

Orbits of ancient stars prompt rethink on Milky Way evolution 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 18, 2020
Theories on how the Milky Way formed are set to be rewritten following discoveries about the behavior of some of its oldest stars.

By David Aragorn
300 million habitable planets in our Milky Way galaxy, say scientists 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 13, 2020
There are at least 300 million habitable planets in the Milky Way, new NASA research has shown – hinting that it’s less likely that humanity is alone in the universe.

By David Aragorn
Milky Way’s Central Bulge Stars Formed in Single Burst of Formation over 10 Billion Years Ago 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 7, 2020
Most stars in the central 1,000 light-years of the Milky Way’s hub formed when it was swollen with infalling gas more than 10 billion years ago, according to astronomers from the Blanco DECam Bulge Survey.

By David Aragorn
Burst of radio waves in Milky Way probably came from neutron star 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 5, 2020
First fast radio burst found in our galaxy is traced to magnetar 30,000 light years away

By David Aragorn
Mars-sized rogue planet found drifting through the Milky Way 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 30, 2020
Astronomers have discovered a planetary free agent floating through the Milky Way, unbound to the gravity of any nearby stars. The discovery, detailed Thursday in Astrophysical Journal Letters, suggests the Milky Way may be teeming with rogue planets.

By David Aragorn
Bulging with a galaxy’s data 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 29, 2020
Astronomers get to the heart of the Milky Way.

By David Aragorn
The Milky Way’s most massive star cluster may have eaten a smaller cluster 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 1, 2020
The Milky Way’s core harbors two giants: the galaxy’s largest black hole and a cluster of tens of millions of stars around the black hole that is denser and more massive than any other star cluster in the galaxy.

By David Aragorn
The Andromeda galaxy’s halo is already colliding with the Milky Way’s 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 1, 2020
Weirdly, the biggest part of a galaxy is the hardest thing to see in it.

By David Aragorn
Milky Way-like galaxy found in deep space puzzles astronomers 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 13, 2020
Using a clever gravity trick, researchers locate a distant galaxy reminiscent of our own. Current theories say it shouldn’t be there.

By David Aragorn
The Milky Way’s giant gas bubbles were seen in visible light for the first time 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 8, 2020
The new technique could map the velocity of gas in the towering structures called Fermi bubbles

By David Aragorn