Giant Bubble Evolving into One of the Brightest Stars in Milky Way
The Daily Galaxy RCW 120 is a galactic bubble that harbors a very large surprise. A surprise that’s at least eight times the mass of the sun. Nestled in the shell around this large bubble is an embryonic star that looks set to turn into one of the brightest stars in our Milky Way galaxy. The galactic bubble [...]
Read More →An Earth-like planet right next door? Astronomers say they litter the galaxy
By Sarah Rich | The Space Reporter Earth may not be the only habitable world within the Milky Way galaxy. According to newly published report, many Earth-like planets exist within the Milky Way and at least a handful may exist within our own cosmic backyard. The study, published by researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for [...]
Read More →Astronomers detect ‘monster’ outflows pouring out of Milky Way’s center
By Lydia Saxton | Space Reporter Astronomers have detected “monster” outflows pouring out of the Milky Way’s center, according to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency. These outflows of charged particles from the center of the Milky Way, which extend more than halfway across the sky, have been mapped with CSIRO’s [...]
Read More →Search for Life Suggests Solar Systems More Habitable than Ours
By Pam Frost Gorder | OSU Scattered around the Milky Way are stars that resemble our own sun—but a new study is finding that any planets orbiting those stars may very well be hotter and more dynamic than Earth. That’s because the interiors of any terrestrial planets in these systems are likely warmer than Earth—up to [...]
Read More →Milky Way’s 84 million stars catalogued
IANS | NewKerala Astronomers have created a catalogue of more than 84 million stars in the central parts of the Milky Way, with a staggering nine-gigapixel image from the VISTA infrared survey telescope at the European Space Organisation observatory. This gigantic dataset contains stars 10 times more than previous studies and is a major step [...]
Read More →Star Found Zooming Around Milky Way’s Black Hole
By Belinda McCallum | The Epoch Times A star discovered orbiting the black hole at our galaxy’s center could help test whether Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity is valid near a black hole. Known as S0-102, the star spins around the black hole every 11.5 years. Previously, only a brighter star called S0-2 was [...]
Read More →Faint galaxy sheds light on the dawn of the Universe – many more to be found
By Mihai Andrei | ZMEscience The first galaxies formed very fast after the Big Bang – in cosmic time, that is. It’s estimated that the earliest ones appeared some 500 million years after the Big Bang, a period about which researchers know very little. Even though they are typically very bright, such galaxies are quite hard to [...]
Read More →Strongest Magnetic Field Ever Found Around A Massive Star In Constellation Perseus
MessageToEagle An international group of astronomers reports the discovery of the strongest magnetic field ever found around a massive star.The star’s magnetic field is 20,000 times stronger than the Sun’s, and almost 10 times stronger than that detected around any other high-mass star. At about 35 times the Sun’s mass, the O-type star NGC 1624-2 [...]
Read More →Planets Could Form in Milky Way’s Danger Zone
By Belinda McCallum | The Epoch Times New planets may be able to form in our galaxy’s Galactic Center, despite being the site of intense cosmic forces like supernova shock waves and the gravitational tides of a supermassive black hole. A new U.S. study suggests that a cloud of helium and hydrogen discovered there last [...]
Read More →“Milky Way Danger Zone” – Solar System Devouring Mini Black Holes
DailyGalaxy Could the galaxies of the Universe be stalked by rogue, all-devouring black holes? It looks that way. A 2011 simulation of black holes merger revealed that there could be literally hundreds of rogue black holes scattered across the Milky Way galaxy. Each one would weigh several thousand times the mass of the sun, so [...]
Read More →First Known Spiral Galaxy in Universe Discovered
DailyGalaxy Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a spiral galaxy in the early universe, billions of years before many other spiral galaxies formed. In findings reported July 19 in the journal Nature, the astronomers said they discovered it while using the Hubble Space Telescope to take pictures of about 300 very distant galaxies in [...]
Read More →The Milky Way’s Alien Planets 160 Billion and Counting!
DailyGalaxy The Kepler Space Mission’s search for habitable planets is in a tiny window representing 1/400th of the Milky Way. “We used to think that the Earth might be unique in our galaxy,” said Daniel Kubas, of the Paris Institute of Astrophysics. “But now it seems that there are literally billions of planets with masses [...]
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