Scientists measure weight of Milky Way galaxy
Washington, March 8 (IANS) Using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite, astronomers have come up with one of …
Milky Way galaxy is ‘warped, twisted’ not flat: Study
Sydney, Feb 5 (IANS) The Milky Way’s disk of stars is not stable or flat but instead becomes increasingly “warped” and twisted far away from …
ESA’s Gaia spots a ‘ghost’ galaxy next to Milky Way
London, Nov 14 (IANS) Using the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia telescope, an international team of astronomers discovered an enormous ‘ghost’ galaxy lurking on the …
Dwarf galaxy close to Milky Way dying: Study
Canberra, Oct 30 (IANS) A dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way called the Small Magellanic Cloud is slowly dying from gradual loss of energy to …
ESA’s Gaia detects unexpected disruption in Milky Way
Barcelona, Sep 20 (IANS) The Milky Way galaxy is still enduring the effects of a near collision that likely took place sometime in the past …
Cosmic crash with dwarf galaxy reshaped Milky Way: Study
New York, July 5 (IANS) A dramatic head-on collision with a dwarf galaxy, dubbed the “Gaia Sausage” galaxy, about 10 billion years ago reshaped the …
LISA can detect binaries from Milky Way’s globular clusters: Study
New York, May 12 (IANS) The European Space Agency’s next-generation Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) gravitational wave detector can potentially detect dozens of binary files …
ESA releases richest star map ever of Milky Way
Berlin, April 26 (IANS) The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the richest star catalogue to date, revealing previously unseen details of the Milky Way. …
Thousands of black holes may be hiding in Milky Way’s centre
New York, April 5 (IANS) A team of US astrophysicists have discovered a dozen black holes gathered around Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) — the supermassive …
NASA’s Hubble finds ‘relic galaxy’ near Milky Way
London, March 13 (IANS) Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have unearthed a “relic galaxy” in the Milky Way’s backyard. The galaxy NGC 1277, lies …
Milky Way stars kicked out by invading galaxies spotted
London, Feb 28 (IANS) An international team of astronomers has discovered evidence to show that some stars located in the Galactic halo surrounding the Milky …
Milky Way’s neighbouring galaxy is of same size, not bigger
Sydney, Feb 15 (IANS) In what could put a galactic arms race to rest, astronomers have discovered that our nearest big neighbour, the Andromeda galaxy, …
Planets beyond Milky Way galaxy discovered for first time
New York, Feb 5 (IANS) A team of scientists from University of Oklahoma has discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the …
Lasagne-like dark `noodle` spotted in Milky Way
Washington D.C, Jan 22 (ANI): What if, there were noodles, lasagne sheets or hazelnuts or, at least, invisible structures shaped like them floating around in …
‘Second largest’ black hole in the Milky Way discovered
Tokyo, Jan 16 (IANS) A team of Japanese astronomers has discovered an enigmatic gas cloud just 200 light years away from the centre of the …