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Light Pollution and Why One-third of People Can’t See the Milky Way

June 13, 2016 Posted by Jack Ford

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Should you look up on a dark, cloudless night, there’s a good chance you can see the beautiful Milky Way galaxy stretching across the sky. If you ever saw it, you know that it looks like a spectacular jeweled carpet. But according to Christopher Elvidge, a scientist at the Earth Observation Group of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: bright billboards, dark nights, light pollution, Milky Way, stargazing, street lamps

Solving the Milky Way’s Mystery: Merged Stars at its Center

November 5, 2014 Posted by Editor

Astronomers have long attempted to solve the mystery of the Milky Way’s center, where a thin object not formed of hydrogen has caused countless, unconfirmed, theories. Finally, scientists claim that they solved this riddle and that they now know what this mysterious object is. According to recent observations, astronomers are now almost certain that G2 was a complex of binary stars orbiting in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: binary star, blakc hole, center of the galaxy, g2, Milky Way, milky way black hole, milky way center

The Milky Way Rests in the Laniakea Supercluster of Galaxies

September 4, 2014 Posted by Editor

A group of scientists conducted by University of Hawaii in Honolulu astronomer Brent Tully, has mapped the exact location of the Milky Way galaxy that reportedly rests in what astronomers call a supercluster of galaxies. This is the first time scientists have succeeded in creating a map that combines more than 8,000 galaxies as part of an effort to understand where our galaxy fits in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: cluster of galaxies, Laniakea, Milky Way

New Gaia Observations Reveal The Galaxy Is Formed ‘Inside-Out’

January 21, 2014 Posted by Staff

A new breakthrough using data from the Gaia-ESO project provides new insight into our Milky Way galaxy. It supports the fact that the galaxy might have formed the inside-out with the inner region forming faster than the outer reaches. The European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite has been launched this month. It has provided substantiation supporting up theoretically-predicted divisions in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: Astronomy and Astrophysics., disc, Gaia-ESO, galaxy, inside out, Metallicity, Milky Way, VLT

Discovered a New class of runaway hypervelocity stars

January 10, 2014 Posted by Contributor

Washington, Jan 10: An international team of astronomers has discovered "hypervelocity stars", a new class of solitary runaway stars as described at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C., this week and is published in Astrophysical Journal. "These new hypervelocity stars are very different from the ones that have been discovered previously," Vanderbilt … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: black hole, hypervelocity stars, Milky Way, solitary stars

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