Tag - Milky Way
For centuries, men have wondered whether we are alone in this universe or there are other living beings similar to us in the giant cosmos. While science fictions have delved into the world of extra-terrestrials, but astronomers are yet to discover...
When our human mind was still busy exploring the various fascinating aspects of the universe, new and more mysterious things outside it awaits our attention. The concepts of parallel universe and life forms existing on other planets have got their share...
How has our universe evolve? Cosmologists have through decades come up with various models that talk of the universe’s growth from a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang to the present day.
But, a recent finding claims an otherwise...
Collision or merger of two galaxies, mostly one large galaxy and several small ones is common in the Universe. Astronomers have also observed some major mergers among the pair of galaxy similar in size.
But, US team of astronomers observed one of...
For the first time, the properties of a rare, extremely massive, and young binary star system are determined. Thanks to NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite and ground-based telescopes.
Surprising astronomers, the binary...
Approximately a century ago, when a Dutch astronomer named ‘Willem de Sitter’ propounded a ‘static model of the universe’ everybody thought of him to be insane. However, unlike the thinking of those scientists he was...
According to a recent study the solar system might be thrown from the close to centre position that it currently acquires to the boondocks when our galaxy Milky Way merges with our neighboring galaxy Andromeda a few billion years from now.
These...
A mind-blowing finding has defied the age-old textbook information on the shape of our solar system – i.e. its being ‘elliptical’ – which defines the shape of an egg, with the Sun at the center of it.
NASA has recently come...
Dwarf Spheroidals or dark galaxies are those small galaxies that are composed mainly of dark matter.
Such galaxies are usually satellites of other large galaxies like the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies.
Scientists now believe that these...
All these days we knew that our Milky Way has two best-known companions -- the Magellanic Clouds, which are a pair of nearby dwarf galaxies. But, a recent observation of the dwarf galaxies has eventually upset this three-member family picture, i.e....
Astronomers have discovered the first known triplet of quasars, according to the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere.
Only about 100,000 to 150,000 light-years separate the three quasars. This light year is...
Researchers at the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II) have announced that they have discovered seven or perhaps eight dwarf galaxies that are orbiting the Milky Way just like a satellite.
These small galaxies have been held together by the...
It was long ago when the life sprout on Earth, we all know that but now the scientists know when exactly it happened. It was the stellar baby boom period of the Milky Way that sparked a flowering and crashing of life here on Earth.
Frenzied...
A universe that's dominated by dark stuff used to seem preposterous to some of the scientists earlier but now we've closed this loophole about gravity, and we've come closer than ever to seeing this invisible matter.
Researchers at the...
As observations reach all the way into the central bulge of our galaxy, the finding opens up a new area of investigation for space scientists probing extrasolar planets -- planets that orbit stars other than our own. Astronomers have spotted 202...
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