The article reports on the news images from the Spitzer Space Telescope of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). According to such images, the Milky Way has just two arms of stars instead of the four it was previously thought ...
NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI/AURA) This is an imaginary view of our young Milky Way as it may have appeared 11 billion years ago, as seen from the surface of a hypothetical planet. The night sky looks markedly different than the view today. The Milky Way's disk and central bulge...
The James Webb Space Telescope revealed galaxies from more than 13 billion years ago that seem to be as mature as the Milky Way is now: "Something so unexpected it actually creates problems for science." Feb 23, 2023 CBS News Miami — Watch Live 24/7 ...
Milky way black hole image: Is this the first black hole image? The recently released image of black hole in our milky way is not the first image of black hole. The first one was released in 2019 by the same group and it was from a galaxy 53 million light years away. However...
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A*. (Image credit: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Wisconsin/Y.Bai. et al.) When the monster back hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy belched out an exceptionally high number of powerful X-ray flares last year...
This enormous section of the Milky Way galaxy is a mosaic of images from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The constellations Cassiopeia and Cepheus are featured in this 1,000-square-degree expanse. These constellations, named after an ancient Queen and King of Ethiopia in...
[33] Astronomers first began to suspect that the Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, rather than an ordinary spiral galaxy, in the 1990s.[34] Their suspicions were confirmed by the Spitzer Space Telescope observations in 2005[35] that showed the Galaxy's central bar to be larger than ...
This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) shows a beautiful spiral galaxy called NGC 6744. At first glance, it resembles our Milky Way albeit larger, measuring more than 200,000 light-years across compared to a 100,000-light-year diameter for ...
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...
Anytime astronomers talk of mapping the Milky Way I am always reminded how tricky the study of the Universe can be. After all, we live inside the Milky Way and working out what it looks like or mapping it from the inside is not the easiest of missions. It’s one thing to map the ...