02 November 2018
Scientists unravel the formation history of the Milky Way
... of what you would expect from the debris of a galactic merger,” says Amina, lead author of the paper published ... middle. The big lump is called the galactic bulge, whereas the bar is called the galactic disk. The disk is in fact made up of two parts...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
...astrophysical environments from collapsing clouds, where stars and planets are forming, to galactic disks, where hundreds of million of stars are evolving, and galactic centres where enormous black holes reside. A portion of the Lupus I cloud complex...
01 February 2016
Enormous gas cloud on a collision course with the Milky Way
... to have launched from the outer regions of the galactic disk around 70 million years ago, is on a return...so before the cloud is expected to plough into the Milky Way's disk, however when it does astronomers believe it will ignite a spectacular burst ...
29 February 2016
Missing matter still lost, as Fast Radio Burst not quite what it seems say researchers
...data obtained via WMAP to search for the missing matter in galactic disks and halos. This research led by Evan Keane on FRB 150418...that the observed radio emission is instead due to Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) activity and that the emission and host ...
28 July 2015
Yale’s Jeffrey Kenny on cosmic wind in the NGC 4921 galaxy
... cluster. Kenny has discovered elaborate gas formations (you can see a close-up in the image above) on the galactic disk’s leading edge. The formations were compared by Astronomy.com to Hubble’s famous “Pillars of Creation” (showing columns of dust...
