New Billion-Star Map Reveals Secrets of the Milky WayDavide CastelvecchiNature magazine
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- An international team of astronomers charted the most detailed three-dimensional map of the Milky Way, revealing that the galaxy is not flat but has an S-shaped, warped stellar disc. The study published on Thursday online in the journal Science showed that the...
The pull of gravity from the center is much less on the stars and gas clouds at the outer edge of the galaxy, which gives the Milky Way an S-like curved appearance. The breakthrough is the result of a new method which is able to map the distance of the Cepheid stars from our sun....
Milky Way Galaxy - Structure, Dynamics, Stars: The first reliable measurement of the size of the Galaxy was made in 1917 by American astronomer Harlow Shapley. He arrived at his size determination by establishing the spatial distribution of globular clus
Spiral arms are the major regions of star formation in spiral galaxies and this is where most of the major nebulae are found. The Shape of the Milky Way - The EvidenceThere are two methods traditionally used to map the spiral structure of our Galaxy. The first method is to study the ...
Milky Way Galaxy- the galaxy containing the solar system; consists of millions of stars that can be seen as a diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky Milky Way,Milky Way System extragalactic nebula,galaxy- (astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems...
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The Milky Way Galaxy was one of two trillion galaxies believed to exist. The number of stars it contained was variously estimated to be over three billion to over four hundred billion stars. It generated its own magnetic field, which experienced dips and
The best 3D map yet of the center of the Milky Way galaxy has revealed a tasty surprise: the heart of our galaxy looks like a cosmic peanut. Two international teams of astronomers discovered the nut-shaped nature of the Milky Way's core, which is known as the galactic bulge and packed ...