18 June 2021
The spin of the Milky Way's galactic bar has slowed by a quarter, say researchers
...fingerprint and found that they had travelled away from the galactic centre. Using this data, Chiba and Schoenrich inferred that ..., as different models will change this inertial pull on the galactic bar,” Chiba says. “lt also poses a major problem for...
15 June 2016
Scientists discover a chiral molecule outside of our solar system for the first time
Researchers have detected, for the first time, a complex organic chiral molecule outside of our solar system, paving the way to understanding one of the most puzzling mysteries of the early origins of life: why chirality is "biased" on Earth. ...
02 August 2016
Astronomers detect large void in the centre of our Galaxy
...order to take a closer look at the goings-on in the centre of the Galaxy, Matsunaga and team used the Infrared Survey ...of any Cepheids in the inner 2.5 kiloparsec region of the Galactic disc. "We already found some while ago that there are Cepheids...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
... decreased. Over the last 4.6 billion years, the Sun has completed nearly twenty revolutions around our galactic centre and has ploughed through widely different interstellar environments. We know that the solar system is entering a very...
03 May 2017
Milky Way dark matter still as elusive as ever
... LAT because the density of gamma-ray sources is very high and the diffuse glow is brightest at the galactic centre.” Instead the signal has been assigned to a population of pulsars – incredibly dense, rapidly spinning cores of collapsed stars...
08 March 2021
New study determines best place and time to live in the Milky Way
... to trigger a mass extinction. For reference, the Sun is approximately 26,670 ± 110 light years (8.2 kiloparsecs) from the galactic centre. This was because the inner regions, as opposed to the peripheral regions, formed quickly in the early stages...
