See the circle of galaxy clusters and voids that surround us in this map of the nearby cosmos, extending 200 million light years in each direction
New predictions suggest an upcoming NASA space telescope could spot over 400 Earth-mass worlds hidden throughout the Milky Way that have "gone rogue" and therefore wander our galaxy alone. Such orphan worlds are thought to start their lives in a planetary system, akin to the solar system, but...
The primary science objective of the HaloSat mission is an exploration of a hot galactic halo in the Milky Way galaxy through mapping of the emission lines of oxygen in order to constrain its distribution and geometry by using three identical commercial-off-the-shelf Amptek X-ray detectors. ...
The sun has an orbit of its own in the Milky Way. The sun is about 25,000 light-years from the center of the galaxy, and the Milky Way is at least 100,000 light-years across. We are thought to be about halfway out from the center, according to Stanford University. The sun and ...
We present a map of the sky with indication of the positions of ACP spears of stars that are close to the Sun; the dust streams of these stars may be dense enough to be identified as meteor streams in the Earth's atmosphere. The other sources of interstellar meteors are the Milky Way ...
“Gaia has provided us with a precise map of theMilky Waygalaxy,” Faherty said, “allowing us to look backward and forward in time, and to see where stars had been located and where they are going.” Of the 2,034 star-systems passing through the Earth Transit Zone over th...
For comparison, the Milky Way galaxy is approximately 13.2 billion years old, while the universe itself has been dated to 13.8 billion years. This is the most detailed and accurate map of the Milky Way Galaxy, created by ESA (European Space Agency) scientists using the data acquired by Gaia...
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The Milky Way as seen from the International Space Station.Soichi Noguchi Astronaut Soichi Noguchi has posted a beautiful shot of the Milky Way from his unique vantage point on the International Space Station (ISS). The stunning photo also offers a glimpse of Earth about 250 miles below the or...