What Does the Milky Way Weigh? Hubble and Gaia Investigate
Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- What does the Milky Way weigh? We can’t put the whole Milky Way on a scale, but astronomers have been … Read more
Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- What does the Milky Way weigh? We can’t put the whole Milky Way on a scale, but astronomers have been … Read more
European Space Agency-(ENEWSPF)- ESA’s Gaia satellite has looked beyond our Galaxy and explored two nearby galaxies to reveal the stellar motions within … Read more
STScI-(ENEWSPF)- The universe is very cluttered. Myriad island cities of stars, the galaxies, form a backdrop tapestry. Much closer to home are … Read more
The first accurate 3D map of our galaxy reveals its true shape: warped and twisted. Victoria, Australia-(ENEWSPF)- Astronomers from Macquarie University and … Read more
Close encounters between stars in the Milky Way’s largest globular cluster leave little room for habitable planetary systems By Sarah Nightingale Riverside, CA-(ENEWSPF)- … Read more
Rochester, NY-(ENEWSPF)- Findings from a Rochester Institute of Technology study provide further evidence that the outskirts of spiral galaxies host massive black … Read more
Potsdam, Germany-(ENEWSPF)- An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Andrea Kunder of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in Germany … Read more
Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- Just in time for the release of the movie “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens,” NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has … Read more
Globular cluster M22 on the left with the radio telescope image of the black holes on the right. Dr Miller-Jones and the … Read more
An image of the Wolf-Rayet star R136a1, the most massive star known. Credit: Wikipedia. Bonn, Germany-(ENEWSPF)- In 2010 scientists discovered four ‘monster’ … Read more