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Milky Way
It's a panoramic, mind-blowing view of a molecular cloud complex littered with stardust, wisps of matter and general turmoil - a glimpse of a Milky Way region where new stars are being born. It&#…
Recently, a mysterious object flared to life and left scientists in awe. It outshines our entire galaxy by FIFTY times, and to date, astronomers are not sure what it is. Astronomers are not really s…
The highest energy cosmic rays hitting Earth have finally had their point of origin pinned down. And it isn't from anything inside the Milky Way. The mystery of where these rays are coming from h…
The Milky Way has a lot of black holes — about 100 million of them, a new study suggests. But there’s no reason to fear. “It may sound like a big number, but by astronomical standards, it’s a pretty …
THE probability we are alone in the universe was slashed after NASA revealed there could be as many as 10 billion Earth-like exoplanets, potentially harboring life in our own Galaxy, The Milky Way, A…
About a hundred thousand galaxies including ours are being sucked towards a region of space that we can’t see and we don’t know why. Astronomers call it astronomers call it a “Gravity Anomaly”. It’s …
Astronomers from Keio University, Japan, have observed what looks like the largest intermediate-mass black hole within the Milky Way. The object is estimated to weigh 100,000 times the mass of the Su…
If we ever get to the point where we're able to warp Star Trek-style around the galaxy , we'll have to be especially careful of getting sucked into one of the many millions of black holes in…
There is a massive black hole with millions of times more mass than our sun is plunging towards Earth and will one day annihilate life as we know it. This particular black hole is coming towards us a…
Have you ever seen a 9-gigapixel map of the Milky Way Galaxy? The jaw-dropping image contains around 84 million stars and it’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen. The original image has 24.6 gigabytes. H…
Around four decades ago, astronomers became aware that our galaxy, the Milky Way, was moving through space at a much faster rate than expected. At 2.2-million kilometres an hour, the speed of the Mil…
Astronomers at the University of Auckland claim that there are actually around 100 billion habitable, Earth-like planets in the Milky Way — significantly more than the previous estimate of around 17 …
Scientists have discovered that the center of our galaxy may trap some of the highest-energy cosmic rays, producing bursts of gamma-rays that head our way. The study was carried out by an internation…
European Southern Observatory (ESO) has revealed the most comprehensive image of the Milky Way to mark the completion of the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy ( ATLASGAL ). The recent…
