02 March 2016
Using MUSCLES to test for life on other planets
... number of exoplanet detections in the Milky Way now beyond two thousand, one of... its orbit and as M dwarfs make up approximately 70% of the stars in the Milky Way, the need to identify potential life-hosting planets on a large scale is evident. Taking ...
06 May 2016
Accurate mass of supermassive black hole calculated by astronomers using ALMA
... their core. The nearest one resides in the centre of our Milky Way galaxy 28 thousand light years away, while the most distant one...the mass of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. "This black hole, though individually massive, accounts for ...
06 June 2016
Galaxies guilty of 'wasting' precious planet building material
...spiral galaxies that have a blueish colour and like the Milky Way actively form stars, along with elliptical galaxies that appear... years, “which means that in a galaxy like the Milky Way, this highly ionized oxygen we're observing has been there since...
26 September 2016
A potentially disrupting satellite system around the LMC has been observed for the first time by astronomers
... (LMC) is a satellite dwarf galaxy of the Milky Way and one of the closest galaxies to Earth and recent... And it appears that the surveys, which also includes the Stromlo Milky Way Satellite (SMS) survey, have one distinguishing feature in common - ...
22 December 2016
Faint signals of water in the nearby Universe can now be detected by ALMA
...billions of years ago to mapping the gas and dust in the Milky Way and other galaxies and even to analysing gas from an erupting ...region of star formation close to the centre of the Milky Way in the constellation Serpens. "The major challenge has been...
07 June 2017
Rare, massive, starburst galaxies captured in detail by Hubble
... which are as much as 10,000 times more luminous than our Milky Way, exist in the Universe and their properties may hold clues as to...rate at 5,000 to 10,000 times higher than that of our Milky Way but with only the same amount of gas. "We've known for...
