A new view of the Milky Way: Warped and twisted Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is "warped and twisted" and not flat as previously thought, new research shows. Analysis of the brightest stars in the ...
Astronomers hypothesize that a long-ago dwarf galaxy dubbed Loki may have merged with the Milky Way when our galaxy was in ...
Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it ...
The result is an unprecedented large-scale 3D map of the galaxy. And that map shows that the edges of the Milky way bend slightly, giving it a warped S shape. "Our map shows the Milky Way disk is ...
A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto has found what ...
Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer this question more than a decade ago. Commenced in 2013, the Satellites Around Galactic ...
This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.
One Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. In fact ... for the telltale signs of starlight being warped on its way to us by a black hole in between the telescope and ...
A new view of the Milky Way: Warped and twisted Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is "warped and twisted" and not flat as previously thought, new research shows. Analysis of the brightest stars in the ...