15 June 2016
Scientists discover a chiral molecule outside of our solar system for the first time
... homochiral. Now, with the discover of propylene oxide (CH3CHOCH2) found in an enormous star-forming cloud known as Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) by researchers primarily using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia...
30 August 2016
Is there anybody out there? SETI researchers look to explain mysterious signal
... “Wow Signal” - the 72-second signal sequence that seemingly originated by the Tau Sagittarii star in the constellation Sagittarius. RATAN-600 radio telescope. Credit: Special Astrophysical Laboratory at RAS. Nikolai Bursov of the Russian Academy...
25 April 2018
New Gaia data reveals details on over 1.6 billion stars
... this is actually a dwarf galaxy being torn apart in the tidal field of our own galaxy; it is called the Sagittarius dwarf. We knew about its existence already, but this is the first time that you can just...
13 August 2020
Fastest star in the galaxy is found, and potentially its a “squeezar”
... 7.6 years to orbit the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy and the other hurtles round Sagittarius A* at speeds of 24, 000 kilometres per second, have been found by a team of European scientists using the Very Large...
07 October 2020
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 awarded to three astrophysicists
... Andrea Ghez each lead a group of astronomers that, since the early 1990s, has focused on a region called Sagittarius A* at the centre of our galaxy. The orbits of the brightest stars closest to the middle of the Milky Way...
