Tag Milky Way - results: 52
Scientists from ESA to more accurately calculate the mass of the milky Way
Astronomers from the European space Agency (ESA) were able to more accurately calculate the approximate mass of our milky Way. It turned out that it is two times more than predicted by previous studies. How? Almost half. The findi...
Our galaxy was not the flat disc, as previously thought
the results of the study by an international team of astronomers, Astronomy journal Nature, suggests that our home galaxy the milky Way is not like a flat "pancake", as was previously assumed. Closer to the edges of the galaxy bec...
The Hubble telescope has made the most detailed photos Galaxy Triangle
Galaxy Triangle, also known as Messier 33 or NGC 598, the third — largest galaxy in the Local group, which also including the milky Way and Andromeda. It is also known fact that is one of the most distant space object visible to t...
In two billion years our galaxy will collide with the Large Magellanic Cloud
milky Way is in danger! A new study of astrophysicists from Durham University () indicates that the galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) will collide with our milky Way galaxy in approximately two billion years and the consequ...
10 spooky forces, phenomena and events that shape the surrounding space
Science has repeatedly shown how pathetic and insignificant we are. But thanks to this we were able to learn a lot about the Universe and its secrets related to the formation of different types of stars, galaxies and a variety of ...
10 fresh and amazing discoveries related to the milky Way galaxy
Our home galaxy is only the first frontier of space exploration. It may sound trite, but the more scientists know about it, the more amazing this system is. It has dark matter, strange signals, and many others, first discovered th...
Frozen super-earths in the orbit of Barnard's star: what hides our "neighbor"?
Every night, counting the stars, astronomers closer to see how populated our universe — or at least our galaxy. After a quarter-century after orbiting other stars were discovered the first exoplanets, statistical data showed that,...
In the milky Way discovered one of the oldest stars in the Universe
In February 2014, astronomers from the Australian national University found . It is located 6,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Hydra, and its age is 13.7 billion years. It turned out that the ancient there are stars...
The milky Way galaxy ate a smaller 10 billion years ago
In its early days, the milky Way, absorbed small galaxy, and star of his unfortunate victims still wander the sky telling their story, scientists have reported. "This is a great event for the history of the galaxy," says astronome...
Scientists have found evidence of the existence of the black hole at the center of our galaxy
In fact, they have long suspected that in the center of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole, and now they have convincing evidence to prove it. Using the Very large telescope array of four individual telescopes, located in an ...
Astronomers have confirmed a collision between two galaxies satellites of the milky Way
If you look at the sky at night, being in the southern hemisphere, you will see two luminous clouds, standing aloof from the milky Way. These clouds of stars are galaxies satellites of the milky Way: Small and Large Magellanic Clo...
A tiny galaxy nearly collided with the Milky Way. What are the consequences?
History of our galaxy is much more turbulent than previously thought. In the new work, published in Nature this week, astronomers said that hundreds of millions of years ago the milky Way almost collided with another galaxy and it...
Scientists believe that the milky Way in the past experienced "clinical death"
Our milky Way galaxy experienced "clinical death" in the past, when it stopped the formation of new stars. It lasted about two billion and ended about five years ago, said the scientific team of the astronomer, Masafumi Noguchi of...
The observation of a black hole have confirmed the General theory of relativity
the result of the analysis of data and 26 years of astronomical observations became the official confirmation of predicted by General theory of relativity features of the motion of stars in a strong gravitational field of a superm...
The Andromeda galaxy eaten by the sister of our milky Way
the Andromeda Galaxy, our closest neighbor, it turns out, hides a very dark past. Astronomers from the University of Michigan found that about two billion years ago Andromeda swallowed the sister of our milky way. All so, our gala...
Elon Musk and the new study on alien life: we should go to Mars
Elon Musk has long been can not refuse from the idea of colonizing other planets. He collected thousands of employees in SpaceX, which built the ship , able to transport 100 people and 150 tons of cargo to Mars. Today he has even ...
Photo of the milky Way using the crystal ball looks stunning
tales of long ago tell us about that crystal ball you can see a lot. It definitely can be seen and it proved the astronomer Juan Carlos muñoz-Mateos. This is probably one of the best ways to look at our galaxy, which so attracts u...
Astronomers figured out how many of the galaxies is our milky Way
Analysis of the movement of several groups of stars in the halo of the milky Way by a team of astronomers from Groningen University (the Netherlands), suggests that our Galaxy in the past has experienced at least five small and on...
The scientist said, what is the future Solar system after the destruction of humanity
Forbes published an article by astrophysicist Ethan Siegel, in which a scientist predicts what will see the sky the inhabitants of the milky Way ten billion years after humanity will perish from the Big Bang. Siegel notes that the...
Created the most detailed at the moment map of the milky Way
the European space Agency (ESA), a new very accurate and highly detailed map of the milky Way, which shows the exact location and brightness of almost 1.7 billion of stars. At the moment it's the most complete star catalogue, to c...