03 February 2020
Researchers discover "invisible" stars too dim to be seen
...to locate other obscured objects drifting unseen in the Milky Way say the researchers who found it. Since beginning science... one billion astronomical objects (mainly stars) across the Milky Way. Because Gaia provides near-real-time photometric data as...
18 August 2021
New study sheds light on Solar System heavy metal problem
...product, magnesium-27, a stable isotope, has been created along the way. Interest in aluminum-26, which emits a gamma ray when it...-lived radioactive elements in star and planet formation across the Milky Way. We are not that special after all, and we ...
09 October 2019
This year's Physics Nobel Prize winners
..., orbiting a solar-type star in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. At the Haute-Provence Observatory in southern France, using custom-... over 4,000 exoplanets have since been found in the Milky Way. Strange new worlds are still being discovered, with an...
08 April 2020
First-ever photo proof of powerful jet emerging from colliding galaxies
... but not all of them are AGNs. For example, our Milky Way's massive black hole is dormant. Scientists theorize that the AGNs grow...lay dormant." Billions of years from now, our own Milky Way will merge with the nearby Andromeda galaxy. "Scientists have...
06 May 2020
Astronomers find closest black hole to Earth
... this interaction. But scientists estimate that, over the Milky Way’s lifetime, many more stars collapsed into black holes ...provides clues about where the many hidden black holes in the Milky Way might be. “There must be hundreds of millions of black ...
06 January 2016
High-Energy X-rays show Andromeda Galaxy in a different light
... is often thought of as the big sister (or brother) to our own Milky Way galaxy. Due to its relatively close proximity, it can even be seen ... reveals how Andromeda may differ from our Milky Way. “Studying the extreme stellar populations in Andromeda...
