detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom: NGC 3576, NGC 6357, Messier 17, NGC 6188, Messier 22 and NGC 3603. “We have changed the view of our ...
Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, ...
“We have characterised the synchrotron emission from our Galaxy with unprecedented accuracy. This radiation is the result of the emission by charged particles moving at velocities close to that of ...
A new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by ... we need a detector the size of our galaxy. The high-frequency gravitational waves created by collisions between relatively small ...
Scientists have confirmed earlier reports that the fabric of the universe is constantly vibrating. The background rumble is ...
distance and motion of stars in our galaxy. Team members used data from the European Space Agency telescope, along with other measurements, to construct a detailed, 3D map of interstellar matter ...
It points straight at a fuzzy patch that, under the darkest skies though more likely through binoculars, looks like what it is—a very large and very close galaxy. Also called M31—and our ...