For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...
Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.
Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation emanating from the ...
A mysterious, high-energy glow from gamma-rays in the Milky Way's center is reigniting the debate: dark matter or a hidden ...
Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...
A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...