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...]
Solving the Milky Way’s Mystery: Merged Stars at its Center
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...]
The Milky Way Rests in the Laniakea Supercluster of Galaxies
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...]
New Gaia Observations Reveal The Galaxy Is Formed ‘Inside-Out’
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...]
Discovered a New class of runaway hypervelocity stars
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...]
