The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye. The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy with a...
Size (DimensionsA comparison of some of the basic properties of M31 and the Milky Way indicates that in almost every respect M31 is larger than the Galaxy. It is more luminous, redder, more massive, and of earlier Hubble type. A detailed comparison of the spiral structure, based on optical...
The majority of massive disk galaxies in the local Universe show a stellar barred structure in their central regions, including our Milky Way1,2. Bars are supposed to develop in dynamically cold stellar disks at low redshift, as the strong gas turbulence typical of disk galaxies at high redsh...
Last night a whole new, bigger, batch of data was added to the Milky Way Project. Here’s a few examples of what you might see in the data:
Milky Way Galaxy, are made of two populations of stars that are distinct in their physical properties as well as their locations. He applied the termPopulation Ito the stars thatconstitutethe spiral arms of Andromeda and to most of the stars that are visible in the Milky Way system in the ...
The Milky Way galaxy is 100,000 light-years from edge to edge. If a rocket could travel at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to cross the galaxy. By comparison, light can go from Earth to the moon in just one second.[2] ...
The original discovery of the Milky Way’s ‘plane of satellites’ (then just five galaxies)1preceded the advent of theΛcold dark matter (ΛCDM) model, whereΛis the cosmological constant, as the paradigm for galaxy and structure formation2. A keyΛCDM prediction is that galaxies such as ...
The impact of stellar feedback on the structure, size and morphology of galaxies in Milky Way size dark matter haloes We use cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation in a Milky Way (MW)-sized halo started from identical initial conditions to investigate the evo... O Agertz,AV Kr...
Milky Plant aims to streamline the process of making plant-based milk in a way that's more convenient than the traditional blender/nut milk bag method. But given it's the priciest option of all plant-milk makers I’ve seen, is it worth it and is it better than using the best blender...
Here, we quantify the extent to which the activity of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), may have affected the habitability of Earth-like planets in our Galaxy. We focus on the amount of atmospheric loss and on the possible ...