In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

Using a model for the Milky Way's mass distribution and the observed positions and velocities of stars, they not only calculated the orbits of stars but, more importantly, measured how much mass ...

For farther stars, other methods involving luminosity are used. Around the time that Kapteyn published his model of the Milky ...

The answer is: a radio telescope that can track hydrogen in the Milky Way as well as the velocities of hydrogen clouds via their Doppler shifts, according to a paper by [Jack Phelps] titled ...

Where is our solar system in the vast assemblage of celestial objects in this island Universe we call the Milky Way? To answer that question, we can begin with the beautiful configuration of stars we ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for ... and the team’s model offer more clarity ...

Price: $199.99 / £169.99 Model number: 10283 Number of pieces: 2,354 Read more below One of the most unique space-themed Lego sets so far, this wall art of the Milky Way looks absolutely stunning ...

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...