Impressive Vista of Milky Way Stellar Nurseries Captured by WISE

Impressive Vista of Milky Way Stellar Nurseries Captured by WISE

The photo spans 1,000 squares degrees of the night sky

The Fastest Rotating Star Ever Found

The Fastest Rotating Star Ever Found

The object lies in a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 27th, 2011
Origins of Mysterious Gas Cloud at Galactic Core Found

Origins of Mysterious Gas Cloud at Galactic Core Found

The formation was observed heading for Sagittarius A*

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 5th, 2011
Our Galaxy's Black Hole May Soon Awaken

Our Galaxy's Black Hole May Soon Awaken

Astronomers are analyzing the implications of such a scenario

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 1st, 2011
Early Stars Display Amazing Heavy Chemical Concentrations

Early Stars Display Amazing Heavy Chemical Concentrations

This is entirely unexpected of such old stars, experts report

Sagittarius Loses Two Streams of Stars to the Milky Way

Sagittarius Loses Two Streams of Stars to the Milky Way

The findings sheds new light on galactic collisions

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • November 18th, 2011
Milky Way Reveals Gas 'Stashes'

Milky Way Reveals Gas 'Stashes'

Investigators have been looking for it for several years

  • iWorld
  • By Filip Truta
  • November 18th, 2011
Solar Walk 1.9 for iPad, iPhone Gets Special Movie Update

Solar Walk 1.9 for iPad, iPhone Gets Special Movie Update

Voice-over for educational movies, localized subtitles

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • November 3rd, 2011
Cracking an Odd Molecular Mystery in the Milky Way

Cracking an Odd Molecular Mystery in the Milky Way

Astronomers have been trying to solve it for many decades

NASA Reveals Old Photo Showing Age of Universe

NASA Reveals Old Photo Showing Age of Universe

The view was collected by the Hubble back in 2002

Number of Globular Clusters in Milky Way Raised to 158

Number of Globular Clusters in Milky Way Raised to 158

Two new such structures were recently discovered from South America

Smith's Cloud Is Heading Towards the Milky Way

Smith's Cloud Is Heading Towards the Milky Way

The structure will spur one final stage of stellar formation

Dwarf Galaxy Remnant Found in Milky Way

Dwarf Galaxy Remnant Found in Milky Way

The relic cosmic structure is called the Aquarius Stream

Milky Way Core Revealed in Stunning Mosaic

Milky Way Core Revealed in Stunning Mosaic

The image provides exquisite detail of the galactic center

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • September 27th, 2011
Milky Way May Reveal Life's Origins

Milky Way May Reveal Life's Origins

Astrobiologists begin looking all over the place for life's seeds

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • September 15th, 2011
Milky Way's Shape Was Dictated by Galactic Collisions

Milky Way's Shape Was Dictated by Galactic Collisions

It consumed two dwarf galaxies over the last 2 billion years

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • September 6th, 2011
Globular Cluster Reveals the History of the Milky Way

Globular Cluster Reveals the History of the Milky Way

Terzan 5 pack more than a million stars tightly together

 
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