The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic home gives us exclusive insight into its components, but it also hinders our ...
Astronomers have detected a previously unknown giant molecular cloud (GMC) at the midpoint of the Galactic Bar Dust Lanes using spectral line observations taken with the Green Bank Telescope (GBT).
Milky Ways were originally presented as malted milk in candy bar form. The confection's galactic name, along with its ...
A newly-discovered spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang – far earlier, considering its size, than astronomers thought possible. Themiya Nanayakkara, at ...
Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...
The location of the area of focus for this research in the Milky Way galaxy is shown above, along with a previously unknown maser. Credit: Image credits as noted, collage created by NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/P ...