Posts Tagged ‘Milky Way’

Massive star factory in early universe

CALTECH (US) — Astronomers have found a star-generating galaxy that existed billions of years earlier than expected possible, churning out 2,000 times more stars than the Milky Way. Continue…

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Fast stars mix it up inside Milky Way bar

U. VIRGINIA / U. MICHIGAN (US) — Hundreds of stars rapidly moving together in long, looping orbits around the center of our galaxy act like a “giant mixer.” (more…)

Science & Technology - Oct 24, 2012 9:12 - 1 Comment

Unruly galaxies have ‘Peter Pan syndrome’

U. ARIZONA (US) — Galaxies don’t appear to be in any hurry to grow up. New research shows that disk galaxies like the Milky Way reached their current state as orderly rotating pinwheels much later than previously thought. (more…)

Science & Technology - Oct 5, 2012 10:28 - 0 Comments

Insanely fast star puts Einstein’s theory to the test

U. TORONTO (CAN) — A star orbits the massive black hole at the Milky Way’s center in 11.5 years—less time than Jupiter takes to orbit the Sun. (more…)

Science & Technology - Oct 2, 2012 11:40 - 6 Comments

Edge of a black hole: ‘You’re not coming back’

U. ARIZONA (US) — What happens to matter as it spirals into a black hole 6 billion times the mass of our sun? (more…)

Science & Technology - May 1, 2012 11:11 - 0 Comments

Black hole wrangle ejects rogue stars

VANDERBILT(US) — Astronomers have identified nearly 700 new rogue stars that appear to have been ejected from the Milky Way. (more…)

Milky Way teems with nomad planet drifters

STANFORD (US) — Nomad planets, which wander the galaxy without stars to orbit, prompt speculation about bacterial life. (more…)

Science & Technology - Jan 12, 2012 12:24 - 0 Comments

Milky Way is ‘white as snow’

U. PITTSBURGH (US) — The most accurate determination yet of the color of the Milky Way galaxy finds it is pure white—”almost mirroring a fresh spring snowfall,” astrophysicists say. (more…)

Science & Technology - Sep 19, 2011 12:09 - 0 Comments

How the Milky Way got its spiral

U. PITTSBURGH (US) — The Milky Way’s spiral arms began forming after an epic collision with the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy, according to supercomputer simulations. (more…)

Science & Technology - Jun 17, 2011 12:17 - 0 Comments

Black hole eats star, spews light beam

U. WARWICK (UK) — A big, bright bang recorded by astronomers came from a distant black hole that ripped apart a star and blasted an energy beam to Earth. (more…)

Science & Technology - Oct 27, 2010 6:43 - 0 Comments

Hidden X-ray source found in Milky Way

PENN STATE (US) — Astronomers have discovered an X-ray emitting object that had been hidden inside the constellation Centaurus. (more…)

Science & Technology - Aug 31, 2010 11:59 - 0 Comments

Spitzer goes to extremes with Milky Way

IOWA STATE (US)—The Spitzer Space Telescope is now taking aim at the outer reaches of the Milky Way. (more…)

Science & Technology - Jul 26, 2010 11:45 - 1 Comment

Fast stars fueled by black hole

U. MICHIGAN (US)—The black hole at the center of the galaxy is to blame for sling-shotting “hypervelocity stars” out of the Milky Way at up to 1.8 million miles per hour, new research suggests. (more…)

Science & Technology - Jun 14, 2010 11:01 - 0 Comments

First look deep inside infant solar systems

U. ARIZONA (US)—Astronomers have observed in unprecedented detail the processes giving rise to stars and planets in nascent solar systems. (more…)

Science & Technology - Jan 13, 2010 10:58 - 5 Comments

So, why is the Milky Way a barred spiral?

CALTECH (US)—For the first time, two astronomers have explained the diversity of galaxy shapes seen in the universe. (more…)

Society & Culture - Dec 30, 2009 17:22 - 0 Comments

Early galaxies as never seen before

U. COLORADO (US)—The Herschel Space Observatory has provided one of the most detailed views yet of space up to 12 billion years back in time. The images reveal thousands of newly discovered galaxies in their early stages of formation, says astrophysicist Jason Glenn. (more…)

Science & Technology - Oct 27, 2009 10:37 - 4 Comments

Cosmic ‘weather’ at edge of solar system

U. CHICAGO (US)—Scientists have published the first comprehensive sky maps revealing a surprising ribbon of energetic neutral atoms at the outer edge of the solar wind bubble surrounding the solar system. (more…)