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Scientists Have Just Calculated The Truly Phenomenal Weight Of The Entire Milky Way Galaxy

Scientists Have Just Calculated The Truly Phenomenal Weight Of The Entire Milky Way Galaxy

Scientists have just calculated the weight of the Milky Way and it is truly phenomenal in its mass. After analyzing our galaxy, it was determined that the Milky Way shares the same weight as a whopping 1.5 trillion suns stacked up and stretched for a staggering 256,000 light years. According to The Daily Mail, the […]

5y ago

Astronomers Have Mapped A Rare ‘River Of Stars’ Within The Milky Way That Formed One Billion Years Ago

Astronomers Have Mapped A Rare ‘River Of Stars’ Within The Milky Way That Formed One Billion Years Ago

Using the European Space Agency satellite Gaia, astronomers from the University of Vienna have mapped a new river of stars in the Milky Way that were found in the southern sky. These 4,000 stars first appeared as a cluster approximately one billion years ago, and have since formed four rivers that meander around the periphery […]

5y ago

Scientists Have A New Estimate Of When The Andromeda Galaxy Will Smash Into The Milky Way

Scientists Have A New Estimate Of When The Andromeda Galaxy Will Smash Into The Milky Way

Thanks to a new study, scientists now have a revised estimate of when the Andromeda Galaxy will finally smash into the Milky Way, and things are looking much brighter for Earth than previously believed. According to Space, the spiral Andromeda Galaxy will still be crashing into the Milky Way, but research through Europe’s Gaia spacecraft […]

5y ago

The Very First Photo Of A Black Hole’s Event Horizon Is Set To Be Released Soon

The Very First Photo Of A Black Hole’s Event Horizon Is Set To Be Released Soon

The year 2019 is going to be quite a remarkable year for astronomy, with the release of the first ever photograph captured of a black hole set soon, thanks to the dedicated work of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT.) We have, of course, never actually seen a black hole before, despite the many images that […]

5y ago

Catastrophic Collision To Hit Our Galaxy Sooner Than First Thought, Scientists Say

Catastrophic Collision To Hit Our Galaxy Sooner Than First Thought, Scientists Say

A catastrophic collision hurtling towards the Milky Way galaxy may reach us sooner than astronomers first thought, NBC Philly is reporting. Scientists have predicted that the Andromeda galaxy will run into the Milky Way galaxy in 8 billion years — but that might not even matter now, as another collision will happen sooner. Scientists see […]

5y ago

Scientists Suggest They May Have Captured The Very First Image Of A Black Hole Within The Milky Way

Scientists Suggest They May Have Captured The Very First Image Of A Black Hole Within The Milky Way

Scientists have suggested that for the first time, they may have finally captured what could end up being the first image of a black hole within the Milky Way. A team of international astronomers have been hard at work analyzing two specific areas of space located in Sagittarius A and M87 through the Event Horizon […]

5y ago

For The Second Time, Astronomers Have Picked Up Repeating Fast Radio Bursts Outside The Milky Way

For The Second Time, Astronomers Have Picked Up Repeating Fast Radio Bursts Outside The Milky Way

For the second time, astronomers have detected fast radio bursts (FRBs) coming from the exact same region in space outside of the Milky Way, which makes this the first time that they have spotted more than one set of these ubiquitous radio waves in the same location. As ScienceAlert reports, even when these fast radio […]

5y ago

A New Study Has Provided The First Evidence Of ‘Dark Matter Heating’ And The Movement Of Dark Matter

A New Study Has Provided The First Evidence Of ‘Dark Matter Heating’ And The Movement Of Dark Matter

Scientists have finally found proof that once dark matter has been heated up, it can move around — and that this occurs because of stars that are being forged within galaxies. In a new study, scientists successfully demonstrated how they have observed something known as “dark matter heating,” while also providing further details about the […]

5y ago

A Nearby Galaxy Will Collide With Our Milky Way In A Few Billion Years, Scientists Say

A Nearby Galaxy Will Collide With Our Milky Way In A Few Billion Years, Scientists Say

According to a new paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a nearby galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is on a crash course with our Milky Way that could destabilize our solar system and doom life on planet Earth, should any life be left by the time the event occurs. […]

5y ago

Astronomers Have Just Discovered The Most Distant Planet In Our Solar System, Giving It The Nickname ‘Farout’

Astronomers Have Just Discovered The Most Distant Planet In Our Solar System, Giving It The Nickname ‘Farout’

Astronomers have just discovered the most distant object that has ever been detected within our solar system, and this object is a dwarf planet that has been given the affectionate nickname of Farout, with its official title being 2018 VG18. As Phys.org reports, the official announcement of this exciting new discovery was given by the […]

5y ago

The Starry Night: Astronomers Have Measured All Of The Starlight Created Over A Period Of 13.7 Billion Years

The Starry Night: Astronomers Have Measured All Of The Starlight Created Over A Period Of 13.7 Billion Years

For the first time, astronomers have been able to accurately measure all of the starlight that has been produced since the creation of the universe 13.7 billion years ago. While the dawn of the universe began with nothing but blackness, after several hundred million years had elapsed it finally began giving us the luminous stars […]

6y ago

A New Study Suggests The Apep Star System Is The First In The Milky Way Capable Of Producing A Gamma-Ray Burst

A New Study Suggests The Apep Star System Is The First In The Milky Way Capable Of Producing A Gamma-Ray Burst

While it may seem unbelievable, astronomers from the University of Sydney, working in collaboration with a group of international researchers, believe that they have spotted a completely new star system in the Milky Way that can produce a powerful gamma-ray burst, and this system is known as the Apep star system. According to Phys.org, the […]

6y ago

Two New Rogue Planets Spotted In The Milky Way

Two New Rogue Planets Spotted In The Milky Way

Earlier this year, the Inquisitr reported on the discovery of a giant rogue planet floating just 20 light-years away from Earth. Unlike most planets, this particular celestial body doesn’t orbit a star and was found wandering alone through the cosmic darkness, detected by radio telescopy. Now, astronomers have announced that they have found two more […]

6y ago

13.5-Billion-Year-Old Star, One Of The Oldest In The Universe, Discovered In Earth’s Backyard

13.5-Billion-Year-Old Star, One Of The Oldest In The Universe, Discovered In Earth’s Backyard

Astronomers have stumbled upon what they believe to be one of the most ancient stars in the entire universe. Dubbed 2MASS J18082002–5104378 B, the newfound star resides in a double star system located in our own galaxy — a mere 2,000 light-years from Earth, reports Astronomy magazine. At 13.5-billion-years-old, this star dates back to just […]

6y ago

Monster Black Hole At The Heart Of The Milky Way Confirmed By ‘Mind-Boggling’ Telescope Observations

Monster Black Hole At The Heart Of The Milky Way Confirmed By ‘Mind-Boggling’ Telescope Observations

For a long time, scientists have suspected that the center of our galaxy is home to a supermassive black hole. Such objects exist at the heart of most major galaxies in the universe — and astronomers started to speculate that the Milky Way might be counted among them after a bright radio source was detected […]

6y ago

Astronomers Have Determined That Two Satellite Galaxies Of The Milky Way Have Recently Collided

Astronomers Have Determined That Two Satellite Galaxies Of The Milky Way Have Recently Collided

For those who are in the Southern Hemisphere, there are two distant patches of milky clouds that can be seen in the night sky. These are both satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, known as the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Large Magellanic Cloud — and astronomers have determined that these galaxies have very recently […]

6y ago

Astronomers Are Studying The Moon To Learn More About The First Galaxies And Stars Of The Early Universe

Astronomers Are Studying The Moon To Learn More About The First Galaxies And Stars Of The Early Universe

Astronomers believe that studying the moon may just be the key to learning more about how the early universe was formed with the first stars and galaxies. A group of astronomers who are headed up by Dr. Benjamin McKinley of the Curtin University’s ARC Center of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO […]

6y ago

Milky Way’s Youngest Pulsar Found 19,000 Light-Years From Earth

Milky Way’s Youngest Pulsar Found 19,000 Light-Years From Earth

Astronomers have managed to locate the youngest pulsar in the Milky Way, NASA announced yesterday. Dubbed PSR J1846-0258, the pulsar was spotted inside one of our galaxy’s supernova remnants — found 19,000 light-years away from our planet, in the Aquila constellation (The Eagle). This exciting discovery — first detailed in a study published earlier this […]

6y ago

A New Study Reveals That 13 Hypervelocity Stars May Have Entered The Milky Way From Other Galaxies

A New Study Reveals That 13 Hypervelocity Stars May Have Entered The Milky Way From Other Galaxies

A new study has revealed that 13 hypervelocity stars that have been discovered may be alien in nature, having traveled to the Milky Way from other galaxies. Hypervelocity stars, which are the most rapidly moving stars in our galaxy and travel at several hundreds of millions of miles per hour, are not gravitationally bound to […]

6y ago

South Africa Debuts Its Brand-New MeerKAT Super Telescope With A Glorious Image Of The Milky Way

South Africa Debuts Its Brand-New MeerKAT Super Telescope With A Glorious Image Of The Milky Way

Earlier today, South Africa unveiled its new super radio telescope, a 64-dish instrument dubbed MeerKAT. Built by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), MeerKAT is stationed in the semi-arid Karoo region of the Northern Cape, and is part of a scientific mega-project which seeks to unravel the secrets of the universe, reports Reuters. According […]

6y ago

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