An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

Instead of a relatively distant dark galaxy, Westmeier thinks the object is more likely a regular gas cloud at the edge of the Milky Way ... data of the disk’s rotation are necessary to ...

And very similar to the Milky Way, Zhulong shows a central thickening of older stars, surrounded by a flat disc with spiral arms in which new stars are being formed. According to Mengyuan Xiao ...

The lone black hole without a companion star is located 5,000 light-years away. A team of scientists have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole that has no star orbiting it in the Milky Way ...

Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within the Milky Way using a technique called Faraday rotation. It works like this. There's a bunch of dust—literal dust grains ...

The Milky Way Tech Hub will launch a new mastermind group in May to build community and provide support for entrepreneurs around the country. The Milky Way Tech Hub, a Milwaukee-based initiative that ...

Scientists have spotted what appears to be a fully-formed spiral galaxy, similar to our Milky Way, from just 1 billion years after the Big Bang. Named Zhúlóng (meaning “Torch Dragon” in Chinese ...

Milwaukee, WI — Milky Way Tech Hub, a leading organization committed to building a tech ecosystem grounded in equity, is proud to announce that national law firm Husch Blackwell has joined as ...

Current models suggest the Milky Way hosts around 10 billion of these embers ... and far quicker than the 155‑day slog of its Kepler‑62 counterpart. Rapid rotation whips up powerful winds that whisk ...

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The team concluded that many more stars in the Milky Way galaxy might be home to planets ... dayside and a perpetual nightside, but the fast rotation of the simulated model effectively thins ...