01 November 2015
The business of stargazing: from observatory tours to ‘Discovery at Sea’
... cruise provides a chance to look at both hemispheres, with the Southern Hemisphere providing a very different view of the Milky Way than the Northern Hemisphere. ‘Discovery at Sea’ is one of the more ambitious ventures catering to the human longing...
07 December 2015
Massive baby galaxies nestled in dark matter filaments found by ALMA
... galaxies, that would have had star formation rates hundreds or thousands of times what we currently observe in the Milky Way, evolved into giant elliptical galaxies over time. Locating these monstrous galaxies could help researchers ascertain...
22 March 2016
Astronomers catch a supernova shock wave in visible light for the first time
... how the seeds of chemical complexity and life itself have been scattered in space and time in our Milky Way galaxy. "All heavy elements in the universe come from supernova explosions. For example, all the silver...
23 March 2016
Could an encounter with a passing dark molecular cloud be responsible for killing off the dinosaurs?
..., which caused global cooling and the destruction of the ozone layer, and resulted in a “Nebula Winter.” The Milky Way Galaxy has a disk with a radius of 10 kilo parsecs (kpc) and a thickness of 200 parsecs (pc). Our solar system...
18 April 2016
New Earth-like planet found in GJ 832 planetary system
... are not alone and recent discoveries have shown that multi-planetary systems in compact orbits in the Milky Way Galaxy seem common – nearly 500 systems with three or more planets have been detected so far1. Finding...
18 August 2016
Space Rebel Niku Baffles Astronomers
...Nine or something completely different, is impossible to say. Artist’s impression of Planet Nine as an ice giant eclipsing the central Milky Way, with a star-like Sun in the distance. Neptune’s orbit is shown as a small ellipse around the Sun. Credit...
