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...
05 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 ...
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...
