All Articles Tagged As: milky way
Astronomers have unveiled the most complete and detailed map yet of the chemical composition of our galaxy
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 | Galaxy isn't as messy as many thought, evidence indicates some balance and order, like the yin and yang of Chinese philosophy ...> Full Article |
 | Astronomers get their first good look at the structure of the Milky Way and the motions of its young stars ...> Full Article |
The sun's movement through the Milky Way regularly sends comets hurtling into the inner solar system - coinciding with mass life extinctions on earth
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 | Astronomers have discovered that our galaxy's central black hole let loose a powerful flare three centuries ago ...> Full Article |
A stream of debris across the sky is the result of intergalactic cannibalism
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 | It took just a couple of hours using data available on the internet for scientists to discover that the Milky Way is twice as wide as previously thought. ...> Full Article |
A young star is speeding away from the Milky Way so fast that astronomers have been puzzled by where it came from; based on its young age it has traveled too far to have come from our galaxy. Now by analyzing its velocity, light intensity, and for the first time its tell-tale elemental composition, Carnegie astronomers Alceste Bonanos and Mercedes López-Morales, and collaborators Ian Hunter and Robert Ryans from Queen's University Belfast have determined that it came from our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The result suggests that it was ejected from that galaxy by a yet-to-be-observed massive black hole. The research will be published in an upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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 | The shape of the mysterious cloud of antimatter in the central regions of the Milky Way has been revealed by ESA's orbiting gamma-ray observatory Integral. The unexpectedly lopsided shape is a new clue to the origin of the antimatter. ...> Full Article |
 | The infrared sky is expanding significantly for the world astronomical community with the first world release of data (DR1) from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS). ...> Full Article |
A team of scientists have announced the beginning of a new multi-year survey, the third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which will use a suite of new instruments to investigate a wide range of scientific topics. Building on eight years of extraordinary discoveries by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS and SDSS-II), the new program of four coordinated surveys will revolutionize the study of the distant universe, the Milky Way galaxy, and giant planets orbiting other stars, and the largest of these surveys will use a novel and powerful technique to study dark energy, one of the biggest mysteries in contemporary science.
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 | Research by a team of astronomers, including a Michigan State University professor and his students, has found that two halos of stars - not just one - rotate around our Milky Way galaxy. ...> Full Article |
 | A collaboration of over 50 astronomers, The IPHAS consortium, led from the UK, with partners in Europe, USA, Australia, has released today (10th December 2007) the first comprehensive optical digital survey of our own Milky Way. Conducted by looking at light emitted by hydrogen ions, using the Isaac Newton Telescope on La Palma, the survey contains stunning red images of nebulae and stars. The data is described in a paper submitted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ...> Full Article |
 | In the early 1900s, Edwin Hubble made the startling discovery that our Milky Way galaxy is not alone. It is just one of many galaxies, or "island universes," as Hubble dubbed them, swimming in the sea of space. ...> Full Article |
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