The ‘Benjamin Button’ effect allows astronomers to better calculate ‘last big crash’ TROY, N.Y. — A stunning new study could turn everything we know about our cosmic home – the Milky Way Galaxy – upside down. According to researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, our galaxy may have collided with another galaxy billions of years later … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Visualization of a ‘wrinkled’ halo of stars around the Milky Way. Credit: Halo Stars: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, T Donlon et al. 2024; Background Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds: Stefan Payne-Wardenaar × close to Visualization of a ‘wrinkled’ halo of stars around the … Read more
The Milky Way has long fascinated humanity, covering the night sky with its familiar constellations and dense streams of stars. The full beauty of our galaxy is difficult to see with the naked eye, but with the help of modern cameras, photographers can capture it in vivid detail. The annual one Milky Way Photographer of … Read more
In an extraordinary scientific breakthrough, astronomers have discovered magnetic stars outside the Milky Way for the first time. These stars, located in the Magellanic Clouds, have provided new insights into stellar magnetism and the magnetic properties of stars in different galactic environments. This groundbreaking discovery, achieved using advanced telescopic and observational technologies, opens new frontiers … Read more
Astronomers have spotted dozens of rogue planets floating loose from their stars after turning the Euclid Space Telescope to look at a remote region of the Milky Way. The wandering worlds were spotted deep in the Orion Nebula, a giant cloud of dust and gas 1,500 light-years away, and described in the first scientific results … Read more
Magnetic fields in the Milky Way’s halo have a toroidal structure, extending in a radius range from 6,000 light-years to 50,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way. The sun is about 30,000 light years away. Credit: NAOC Astrophysicists have discovered large magnetic toroids in the Milky Way‘s halo, which affects cosmic ray propagation … Read more
Astronomers have discovered three ancient stars “on the run” in the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, racing in the wrong direction at hundreds of thousands of kilometers per hour. Despite being bright for their age, the three stars are so old that they date back to the time when the first galaxies formed. That … Read more