02 August 2016
Astronomers detect large void in the centre of our Galaxy
...The current results indicate that there has been no significant star formation in this large region over hundreds of millions years. ... new Cepheids are helping us to better understand the formation and evolution of the Milky Way,” explains co-author ...
30 November 2018
All of the starlight ever produced calculated by scientists
... years ago, etc. - all the way back to when the first stars were forming. “This allowed us to reconstruct the EBL and determine the star-formation history of the Universe in a more effective manner than had been achieved...
06 June 2016
Galaxies guilty of 'wasting' precious planet building material
... with elliptical galaxies that appear red but also have little star formation. Nonetheless, despite the disparity in the galaxies star-producing ability, the simulations by the team revealed that both types of galaxy are not as efficient...
01 July 2019
Earliest known galaxy merger detected by ALMA
... galaxy in its prime is indicated by its apparent lack of star-forming material. The research team, headed by Takuya Hashimoto, a... distant Universe." Mergers are essential not only for star formation and galaxy evolution, but they also help unravel ...
08 March 2021
New study determines best place and time to live in the Milky Way
... – shortly after Earth started evolving – then the tables were turned. Heavy elements spewed out by generations of star formation reduced the frequency of GRBs, leaving the most central regions of the galaxy a more safer place to live...
June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
... at least the first few variables of the Drake Equation. “We know the star formation rate is around seven per year from Kepler,” he said. “We know the fraction of stars with planets, is about one percent in the Milky Way. We know...
