Tag Archive for Milky Way

By combining photographic and digital data from the US Naval Observatory-B and Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR9 catalogues, astronomers have made one of the...

Astronomers used data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Very Large Array radio telescope to detect a jet from Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*),...

British astronomers reporting in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (arXiv.org) have found two of the oldest brown dwarfs in...

Using Hubble’s deep-sky surveys, NASA astronomers have studied the evolution of 400 Milky Way-like galaxies to show how our own Galaxy looked like...

A team of researchers reported the first-ever discovery of a black hole in a globular star cluster in our Milky Way Galaxy. This Chandra X-ray image of...

Astronomers have reported the discovery of a magnetic field in the Smith Cloud, a gigantic streamer of hydrogen gas that will plunge into our Galaxy in...

The biggest-ever survey of dense clumps in our Milky Way Galaxy, published in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, has catalogued and mapped 6,194...

Astronomers led by Prof Joss Bland-Hawthorn from the University of Sydney have found evidence that the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy,...

Two international teams of astronomers have used ESO’s VISTA telescope and MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope, both in Chile, to produce the best 3D map yet of...

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ESO’s New Technology Telescope, two astronomers from University of Manchester, UK, have studied 130...

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has taken a major step in understanding why gas near the Milky Way’s...

An international team of astronomers has used observations of the newly discovered pulsar PSR J1745-2900 to measure the magnetic field emanating from a...

ESO’s Very Large Telescope has made detailed observations of a hot gas cloud being ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy. New...

European astronomers, using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) in Chile’s Atacama desert, have observed the birth of a massive...

Our Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy had a close encounter around 10 billion years ago, according to European astronomers led by Dr Hongsheng...

According to a new study reported in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, there may be as many as 60 billion planets in the so-called habitable zone around...

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found tantalizing evidence for the existence of a shell of stars that...

An international team of astronomers suggests a supernova remnant, called W49B, contains the youngest black hole formed in our Milky Way Galaxy. This image...

An international team of biologists led by Dr Marie Dacke of Lund University, Sweden, has discovered that African dung beetles (Scarabaeus satyrus) use...

Yale astronomers have reported the discovery of a stream of stars believed to be the remnant of an ancient star cluster slowly being ingested by our Milky...