Tag Archive for 'Milky Way'

This image shows the disk of the Milky Way Galaxy surrounded by a faint halo of old stars (NASA / ESA / A. Field, STScI)

Milky Way’s Cannibal Past Revealed

Feb 27, 2013 by Sci-News.com

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found tantalizing evidence for the existence of a shell of stars that...

This image of the supernova remnant W49B combines X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in blue and green, radio data from the NSF's Very Large Array in pink, and infrared data from Caltech's Palomar Observatory in yellow (X-ray: NASA / CXC / MIT / L.Lopez et al, infrared: Palomar, radio: NSF / NRAO / VLA)

Astronomers Find Milky Way’s Youngest Black Hole

Feb 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers suggests a supernova remnant, called W49B, contains the youngest black hole formed in our Milky Way Galaxy. This image...

A dung beetle and the Milky Way (Emily Baird)

Dung Beetles Use Milky Way for Orientation

Jan 24, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of biologists led by Dr Marie Dacke of Lund University, Sweden, has discovered that African dung beetles (Scarabaeus satyrus) use...

This image shows the southern sky as mapped by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The newly discovered stellar stream is designated as the Triangulum stream (SDSS DR 8 / Ana Bonaca et al)

New Stellar Stream Found in Milky Way

Nov 7, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Yale astronomers have reported the discovery of a stream of stars believed to be the remnant of an ancient star cluster slowly being ingested by our Milky...

This striking view of the central parts of the Milky Way was obtained with the VISTA survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile (ESO / VVV Consortium / Ignacio Toledo / Martin Kornmesser)

VISTA Telescope Maps Milky Way’s Bulge

Oct 25, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using ESO’s 4.1-m Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) have catalogued more than 84 million stars in the central parts...

This Keck Observatory image shows the short-period star S0-102, the star S0-2 and the electromagnetic counterpart of the black hole, Sgr A* (L. Meyer et al)

Record-Breaking Star Found Orbiting Supermassive Black Hole at Milky Way’s Center

Oct 5, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a remarkable star that orbits the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy in only 11.5 years –...

Artist's conception of a protoplanetary disk of gas and dust, red, is being shredded by the powerful gravitational tides of our galaxy's central black hole (David A. Aguilar / CfA)

Astronomers Say Planets Can Form in Milky Way’s Center

Sep 13, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A research led by Dr Ruth Murray-Clay of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that planets can form in the center of our galaxy. Artist’s...

Image shows one of the two ‘exact matches’ to the Milky Way system found by the team. The larger galaxy, known as GAMA202627, which is similar to the Milky Way clearly has two large companions. Bluer colors indicate hotter, younger, stars like many of those that are found in our galaxy (Aaron Robotham / ICRAR / St Andrews / GAMA)

Magellanic Clouds-Milky Way System’s Twins Found

Aug 23, 2012 by Sci-News.com

An international group of astronomers has announced the discovery of two groups of galaxies that are just like ours. Image shows one of the two ‘exact...