What does the Milky Way look like? The Milky Way Galaxy is organized into spiral arms of giant stars that illuminate interstellar gas and dust. The sun is in a finger called the Orion Spur.(Image credit: Hubble Space Telescope) The Milky Way is a relatively thin, flattened disk. This exp...
Have you ever seen 40,000 shooting stars blaze across the sky at the same time? If you'd like to, the European Space Agency (ESA) is offering you two options: Either stare at the night sky for about half a million years as oursolar systemdrifts steadily through theMilky Way(some patie...
What do the stars look like on Mars? What does the Sun look like? How far is Mars from the Sun? Would Mars even be a good place to do amateur astronomy? At first glance the answer to this last question would be a resounding ‘yes’. For a start there are very few cloudy nights ...
What does a spiral galaxy look like? How are irregular galaxies formed? What is Alpha Centauri made of? How did the Andromeda Galaxy form? What is the Chelyabinsk meteor made of? What was Apollo 11 made of? Does the Milky Way have a black hole? What is a redshift galaxy? What was ...
It's easy to think of maps as sets of visual directions. Whether you're trying to get to the top of Mount Everest or to a friend's new home, a map can help you find your way. But maps can do more than help you figure out where you are and where you're going. They are repre...
Now back in the 1920s, the Hooker telescope was the most powerful telescope in the world. 现在,回到十九世纪二十年代,胡克望远镜是世界上最强大的望远镜。 And through it we could see, see for the first time, that the universe extends far, far beyond the Milky Way galaxy. ...
What is at the center of the Milky Way? What is the parallax of Alpha Centauri? What constellation is Betelgeuse in? What is a dark star? What is a boson star? What does the Andromeda Galaxy look like? What is Nikki's constellation?
You may like 'Dark matter is more valuable than gold': Wobbly galaxies help shine a light on the universe's strangest stuff Mysterious phenomenon at the heart of the Milky Way could point to new dark matter suspect. 'We may have been overlooking its subtle chemical effects on the cosmos.'...
If your child has a sore or ulcer on their genitals, have their doctor take a look. Treatment will depend on the cause. What does vulvovaginitis look like? The vulva may look inflamed and red or discolored. There may be what look like small cuts on the vulva where the skin has broken...
But by figuring out dark matter, we can also expect to gain a better understanding of our galaxy and the distribution of the cosmos outside it. Our universe hasn't just been impacted by dark matter; it's been defined by that impact. As we touched on earlier, the Milky Way owes its ...