Astronomers have found more evidence that there is a massive ripple traveling through the Milky Way. They have found evidence that stars at the edge of the galactic disk are moving like people doing ...

First, a quick overview: the Milky Way is classified as a disk galaxy, with a broad circular collection of stars, gas and ...

The motions of stars in the Milky Way have revealed a giant outward ripple, set off by a massive event sometime in our galaxy's wild past. In a new analysis of data collected by the Gaia space-mapping ...

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...

The Milky Way appears to have a vast ripple spreading out across at least a quarter of its disc. If confirmed, the structure might be a relic from a brush with another galaxy, but not all astronomers ...

The Milky Way galaxy is like a gigantic ocean gyre or eddy that spins and wobbles around its center. But our home galaxy also has a colossal wave rippling through it, pulling and pushing an ocean of ...

A huge "wave" is rippling through our galaxy, pushing billions of stars in its wake, a new study reveals. The Milky Way 's galactic wave was spotted in mapping data from the European Space Agency 's ...

A massive wave is rippling outward from our Milky Way galaxy’s center, according to data from the European Space Agency’s incredible Gaia mission. The unexpected feature, published today in Astronomy ...

The galaxy our planet inhabits is called the Milky Way for the simple reason that, as seen from our world, its impossible-to-count collection of stars looks like a band of milky white light. In all ...

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Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week with a quick roundup of some science news you may have missed. You’ve ...

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