This word means "milky," because, in Greek mythology, it is the milk spurt from the breasts of Hera, Zeus's wife, while she was nursing the baby Heracles. The Romans inherited the Greeks' gods and mythology, and called this spectacular structure "Via Lactea," which means "Milky Way."...
This would mean that the total number of stars in the universe are greater than the number of grains of sand on Earth. What is the name of our galaxy? Our galaxy is a spiral galaxy called the Milky Way. It is called the Milky Way because of the milky appearance it makes in the ...
Milky Way GalaxyWe investigate statistically the relative velocities of the ionized gas in HII regions and the neutral gas in the molecular clouds associated with them for 151 optical HII regions in our Galaxy. The...doi:10.1007/978-94-009-7778-5_28M. Fich...
Abundance trends are plotted, and we examine the proposal that increased star formation during gas-rich mergers may explain the high alpha-to-iron abundance ratios which exist in the relatively high-metallicity thick disk component of the Milky Way. 展开 ...
The catalogue of stellar parameters from the detached double-lined eclipsing binaries in the milky way PASA (2014) EkerZ.et al. Empirical bolometric correction coefficients for nearby main-sequence stars in the Gaia era Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. ...
Extending earlier work, we show that when the abundances of Fe, elements and the r-process element Eu are considered together, stars separate neatly into two groups that delineate the traditional thin and thick disc components of the Milky Way. The group akin to the thin disc is traced by ...
Study of the thermal and nonthermal emission components in M31: the Sardinia Radio Telescope view at 6.6GHz Context. The Andromeda galaxy is the best-known large galaxy besides our own Milky Way. Several images and studies exist at all wavelengths from radio to h... S Fatigoni,F Radiconi,...
Unlike the easily studied neutral and ionized (i)___ that compose the primary disk of the Milky Way itself, the components of the (ii)___ surrounding our galaxy have proved more resistant to study. figments…envelope essences…fluctuations eleme
The GAIA mission will produce an extraordinary database from which we should\nbe able to deduce not only the Galaxy's current structure, but also much of its\nhistory, and thus cast a powerful light on the way in which galaxies in general\nare made up of components, and of how these ...
Milky Way GalaxyGalactic EvolutionMass To Light RatiosSolar NeighborhoodThe determination of the relative masses of the disks, bulges and dark halos of galaxies has received considerable attention in the present proceedings. The attention is well deserved, since any attempt to understand the formation ...