Star surveyor Gaia enters its operational orbit
The European Space Agency's billion-dollar star surveyor 'Gaia' is now in its operational orbit around a gravitationally stable virtual point ...
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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 ...
Astronomers calculate the distance to the neighboring galaxy
Researchers have, for the first time, calculated the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy neighboring the Milky Way. ...
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 ...
European Observatory (ESO) assembles 9 gigapixel image with 84 million stars
The European Southern Observatory has captured and analyzed an image of the center of our galaxy which, if printed at ...
The Milky Way is surrounded by a huge, hot halo of gas
Recent measurements conducted by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, and observed by other X-ray instruments from around world and in space, suggest that ...
Quasars “snack” regularly, instead of “feasting in one gulp”
[caption id="attachment_13290" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Artist's rendering of ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a ...
Spectacular spherical star cluster imaged by Hubble
The ever faithful Hubble telescope has offered us yet another fantastic glimpse into the Universe's hidden gems. Captioned below is ...
The Milky Way, as seen from the Himalaya mountains
This has to be one of the most stunning pictures I've ever come across. Milky Way ...
The world spinning with the stars [VIDEO]
Capture from video. Here's another amazing time-lapse video we'd like to recommend for your selected viewing. ...
Strange kink in Milky Way ring
The Milky Way galaxy is just beginning to unveal its secrets to us, and we are just starting to understand ...
Galaxy is full of starless Jupiter-like planets
Finding new planets is interesting an remarkable, but finding a whole new class of planets - that's definitely something extraordinary. ...
Breathtaking time lapse video of the Milky Way
I've recently fallen in love with time lapse videos of the sky, and ...
Incredible photo of the Milky Way arch
Once again NASA's ...
How many planets are in the Milky Way? Over 50 billion
Yes, you've read that right. There are over 50 billion planets in our galaxy alone, according to the Kepler telescope, ...
Universe could hold three times more stars than previously believed
A new study suggests that a blunder of cosmic proportions has been made when estimating the total number of stars ...
Previously unseen huge structure located within our galaxy
Researchers have confirmed the presence of a previously undiscovered structure located in the center of the Milky Way, a discovery ...
Milky Way spins faster
Well ladies and gentlemen, you'd better fasten your seat belts, because we're in for quite a spin. The Milky Way ...
The Milky Way monster
A team of Canadian astronomers at the University of Montreal led by physicist Anthony Moffat has discovered a star whose ...