Usually, young massive stars move around along with the gas that they were born from – but the SMC’s stars do not appear to be moving in that way, suggesting that the gas itself is not ...

Astronomers using ALMA have discovered a new type of long, narrow “slim filaments” in the Milky Way’s central molecular zone, revealing surprising details about shock-induced material circulation near ...

The Local Group, which includes the Milky Way, has a peculiar velocity of about 627 kilometers per second. In the νHDM model, this value fits nicely within the predicted range, due to the way ...

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will collide and explode in 23 billion years. The blast—were we around to ...

Milky Way Crispy Rolls were discontinued in 2022 GETTY Alongside the Milky Way version, shoppers can also find new Twix Crispy Rolls and Bounty Crispy Rolls as permanent additions to the meal deal ...

What it is: Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region of the Milky Way. Where it is: 25,000 light-years from the solar system in the constellation Sagittarius. When it was shared: April 2, 2025 Why it's so ...

and its given nickname comes from its remarkably fast rotation and huge size. It's five times more massive than the Milky Way, for context, stretches across 100,000 light-years. More specifically ...

No one could fault him for going either way. Coen Carr In many ways, this season became about Coen Carr's rapid growth from a rotation player into a legitimate star for Michigan State. With another ...

Though Gaia’s systems are now silent, its scientific impact is just beginning to unfold. Launched in 2013, Gaia set out to map the Milky Way with a level of detail never before achieved. Over the ...

In that way, the SMC is a unique and very close example of what was happening in the early universe. For more sublime space images, check out our Space Photo of the Week archives . TOPICS ...