A dwarf galaxy may have collided with the Milky Way 3 billion years ago
Shell-like structures in the Milky Way were created when a dwarf galaxy plunged through our galaxy’s heart around 3 billion ...
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Astronomers map the Local Void – the huge “nothingness” surrounding the Milky Way
The new study explains why our galaxy doesn't travel with the expansion of the universe.
*Something* is blasting “cosmic bullet holes” through our galaxy
Clumps of dark matter might be shooting through the Milky Way's stars.
We’re living in the Milky Way, version 2.0
Our galaxy is like a phoenix.
The Milky Way grows back two spiral arms
There has been a debate over the number of spiral arms the Milky Way galaxies has, due to mixed results ...
Lobster nebula shines in new light after infrared observation
An infrared image of the Lobster nebula, filled with glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young ...
Rare supernova leftovers might have produced the youngest black hole in the Milky Way
This highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy. The composite ...
Doomsday part 5: Planetary and galactic alignment
On December 21 the solar system's planets will align and/or the sun will also align in turn with the center ...
The Milky Way’s mass is 1,6 trillion suns, far more than previously estimated
In a novel and highly praised research, a team of astronomers have managed to estimate the mass of our host ...
Farthest known object in the Universe is 13.3 billion years old
The inset at left shows a close-up of the young dwarf galaxy. This image is a composite taken with Hubble's ...
Closest star orbiting our galaxy’s black hole discovered
Astronomers at UCLA university have made a remarkable discovery, after they've confirmed the presence of a star orbiting the black ...
Oldest spiral galaxy is a freak of cosmos
Artist's rendering of the oldest known spiral galaxy - 11 billion years old. The red area in the upper right ...
Enormous water reservoir found in space is bigger than 140 trillion earth oceans
Astronomers have discovered the largest body of water so far known, a reservoir of water floating in space around a ...
Intense Gamma Ray blast indeed traced back to supermassive black hole
We previously reported about an incredible gamma ray burst triggered by a black hole, so powerful that nothing like this ...
APOD: fantastic time lapse of clouds and sky over the Canary Islands
Time lapse videos seem to be really in fashion as of late, but if directors keep editing videos like the ...
Milky Way Has Mysterious Lopsided Cloud Of Antimatter: Clue To Origin Of Antimatter
Antimatter is a fascinating story; basically nobody knows for sure what it could do and scientists have been trying to ...