14 October 2016
Observable Universe is populated with 10 times as many galaxies as previously thought
... were relatively small and faint, with masses similar to those of the satellite galaxies that surround the Milky Way, such as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). These results therefore are strong evidence that a significant evolution...
26 October 2016
Australian radio telescope shows the Universe in radio waves
...Widefield Array radio telescope, located in outback Western Australia. The Milky Way is visible as a band across the sky and the dots... said. The GLEAM survey is an important step on the way to the low frequency part of the Square Kilometer Array radio...
16 December 2016
Mini-spiral galaxies may transform how dark matter is perceived
... - spiral galaxies that look similar to our own Milky Way, but are ten thousand times smaller. By studying these... observed, the structure of dark matter mimics visible matter in its own way. "If, for a given mass, the luminous matter in a galaxy is...
05 January 2017
Astronomers pinpoint location of mysterious fast radio bursts
... for the origin of FRBs. These mysterious bursts were originally thought to have come from within the Milky Way or at least from cosmic neighbours nearby due to their high energy, however their sporadic nature was something...
23 January 2017
New results from HST show relativistic jets on scales rarely seen before
... to the Sun. A kilo parsec is therefore a 1000 parsecs and a Megaparsec is one million parsecs. The centre of the Milky way for example is more than 8 kilo parsecs (26, 000 light years) from the Earth and roughly 34 kilo...
24 February 2017
Researchers find a new type of X-ray transient
...’ material such as the gas clouds that populate the Milky Way, in order to look at how the Universe appears ...a white dwarf being shredded by an intermediate-mass black hole. Either way, say the team, none of these scenarios can completely explain all...
