A new study led by researchers at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) reveals how the disks of galaxies like ...
New observations and simulations by a research team led by MPE show that a massive binary star near the center of our Galaxy ...
For billions of years before reaching its current location, the Sun may have slowly travelled as part of a large group, or “wave,” of stars drifting out from the inner parts of the Milky Way. This ...
Astronomers have finally identified where the Milky Way’s star-making activity fades, uncovering a long-sought boundary in ...
A new study led by researchers at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute ...
The European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope spent more than a decade mapping the Milky Way, collecting over 3 trillion observations of nearly 2 billion stars. When scientists analyzed the data, ...
Astronomers have directly observed how turbulent gas and charged particles floating between stars can bend and distort light ...
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is of a respectable size. It got this big over its 13 billion years of life by also absorbing ...
Astronomers identify 20 ancient stars from a lost dwarf galaxy called Loki, revealing new clues about how the Milky Way formed.
From this vantage point looking at the Milky Way from its edge, the galactic bulge might appear as a glowing orb of stars, ...
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