30 November 2018
All of the starlight ever produced calculated by scientists
... our Moon, some visible stars and the ethereal glimmer of the Milky Way, this is also the reason why the sky is dark at night...are continually created – seven new stars are born in our Milky Way galaxy every year for example – stars are not being ...
07 October 2020
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 awarded to three astrophysicists
... of the brightest stars closest to the middle of the Milky Way have been mapped with increasing precision. The measurements of these... inter- stellar gas and dust to the centre of the Milky Way. Stret- ching the limits of technology, they refined new...
September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
... the line-of-sight. The magnetic field of the Milky Way has been mapped extensively using this method with pulsars...few milliseconds and have dispersion measures well in excess of the Milky Way’s contribution. The key to progressing in the field of ...
October 2020
Learning from alternative universes
...not see them anymore, but everything in the local group (the Milky Way and its neighbours) would remain just like it is. We wouldn... a vast storehouse of knowledge about the solar system, the Milky Way and the universe. The path ahead Now that we know...
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...
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 ...
