Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- What does the Milky Way weigh? We can’t put the whole Milky Way on a scale, but astronomers have been able to come up with one of the most accurate measurements yet of 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 them and how they will one day interact and collide with the Milky 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 nebulae, star clusters, and assorted other foreground celestial objects that are mostly within 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 the Chinese Academy of Sciences have used 1339 ‘standard’ stars to map the 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)- Searching for life in the vast universe is an overwhelming task, but scientists 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 holes. These overlooked regions are new places to observe gravitational waves created when 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 and Dr. R. Michael Rich of UCLA has discovered that the central 2000 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 photographed what looks like a cosmic, double-bladed lightsaber. In the center of the 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 team observed the black holes using the newly upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very 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’ sized stars, with the heaviest more than 300 times as massive as our READ MORE
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