Researchers claim to have discovered the oldest stellar disk in the Milky Way
Scale height/length ratio as a function of age, comparing Milky Way observations with TNG50 simulations. Credit: Natural astronomy (2024). DOI: ...
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A Clearer View of the Milky Way with Gaia and Machine Learning
Large-scale map (330,000 light-years on a side) of the density of the 217 million stars in the Gaia DR3 XP ...
Telescope captures most detailed infrared map of our Milky Way ever
This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most detailed infrared ...
What Makes the Milky Way a Special Galaxy? Team of Astronomers Publish New Findings
A mosaic of images from 378 satellites across 101 Milky Way-like systems that the SAGA team studied. The satellite images ...
Telescopes show Milky Way black hole ready for a kick
This artist's illustration depicts the results of a new study of the supermassive black hole at the center of our ...
Lightest black hole or heaviest neutron star? MeerKAT discovers a mysterious object in the Milky Way
Artist's impression of the system assuming the massive companion star is a black hole. The brightest background star is its ...
“Stellar paternity tests” link orphaned stars to their origins in the Milky Way
Credit: CC0 Public domain In the chaotic environment of open star clusters, strong gravitational interactions between bodies can throw individual ...
Extragalactic stars in the Milky Way, more biolinguistic evidence and couples facing COVID
The central region of the Milky Way captured by the Subaru Telescope. The image shows many stars in a field ...
Astronomers discover Milky Way’s faintest satellite
Detection plot for Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1. Projected sky positions in the tangent plane of all stars in a 12′ ...
New constraints on the presence of ultralight dark matter in the Milky Way
Credit: David Champion/MPIfR. Dark matter, composed of particles that do not reflect, emit or absorb light, is expected to make ...
