Astronomers using ESO’s 4.1-m Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) have catalogued more than 84 million stars in the central parts...
Astronomers have announced the discovery of a remarkable star that orbits the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy in only 11.5 years –...
A research led by Dr Ruth Murray-Clay of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that planets can form in the center of our galaxy.
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Astronomers at the Keio University, Japan, have discovered a helical molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy some 30,000 light-years away.
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An international group of astronomers has announced the discovery of two groups of galaxies that are just like ours.
Image shows one of the two ‘exact...
An international group of scientists led by the University of Buckingham in UK has claimed that life-bearing planets may exist in vast numbers in the space...
An international team of astronomers has for the first time produced an image that shows more than one billion stars in the Milky Way.
Detail of a star-forming...
The ESA-NASA Planck spacecraft has returned new remarkable images showing previously undiscovered islands of star formation and a mysterious haze of microwave...
