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This magnificent 360-degree panoramic image, covering the entire southern and northern celestial sphere, reveals the cosmic landscape that surrounds our tiny blue planet, (c) ESOESO unveils an amazing, interactive, 360-degree panoramic view of the entire night sky

— 14 Sep 2009 14:20 | Astronomy

The first of three images of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project - a new magnificent 800-million-pixel panorama of the entire sky as seen from ESO's observing sites in Chile - has just been... — full story

This artist's conception shows a rogue black hole floating near a globular star cluster on the outskirts of the Milky Way. New calculations by Ryan O'Leary and Avi Loeb suggest that hundreds of massive black holes, left over from the galaxy-building days of the early universe, may wander the Milky Way. Fortunately, the closest rogue black hole should reside thousands of light-years from Earth, (c) David A. Aguilar (CfA)Rogue black holes may roam the Milky Way

— 2 May 2009 18:49 | Astronomy

It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie: rogue black holes roaming our galaxy, threatening to swallow anything that gets too close. In fact, new calculations by Ryan O'Leary and Avi... — full story

This artist's concept shows young, blue stars encircling a supermassive black hole at the core of a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. The background stars are the typical older, redder population of stars that inhabit the cores of most galaxies (including our own). CfA astronomers caught two stars in the act of forming within a few light-years of the Milky Way's centre. Their find demonstrates that stars can form at our galaxy's core despite the powerful gravitational tides generated by the black hole, (c) NASA, ESA, and A. Schaller (for STScI)Stars forming just beyond black hole's grasp at galactic centre

— 6 Jan 2009 12:22 | Astronomy

The centre of the Milky Way presents astronomers with a paradox: it holds young stars, but no one is sure how those stars got there. The galactic centre is wracked with powerful gravitational... — full story

Milky Way a swifter spinner, more massive, new measurements show

— 6 Jan 2009 11:22 | Astronomy

Fasten your seat belts - we're faster, heavier, and more likely to collide than we thought. Astronomers making high-precision measurements of the Milky Way say our Galaxy is rotating... — full story

Astrophysicist helps map the Milky Way's 4 spiral arms

— 5 Jan 2009 15:18 | Astronomy

Iowa State University's Martin Pohl is part of a research team that has developed the first complete map of the Milky Way galaxy's spiral arms. The map shows the inner part of the Milky... — full story

Projected dark matter density in the simulated Milky Way. A myriad of dark matter is embedded within the the galaxy's halo, and their dense centres emit energetic gamma-rays from the annihilation of dark matter particles, (c) Virgo ConsortiumSimulation could solve mystery of 'dark matter'

— 5 Nov 2008 18:00 | Astronomy

The search for a mysterious substance which makes up most of the Universe could soon be at an end, according to new research. Dark matter is believed to account for 85 per cent of the... — full story

Pinning down the Milky Way's spin

— 22 Sep 2008 14:44 | Astronomy

New, very precise measurements have shown that the rotation of the Milky Way is simpler than previously thought. A remarkable result from the most successful ESO instrument HARPS, shows... — full story

Using more than 100,000 hours of computer time on a UW computer cluster and a supercomputer at the University of Texas, the scientists ran simulations of the formation and evolution of a galaxy disk from material that had swirled together 4 billion years after the Big Bang, (c) University of Washington News and InformationOur Sun could be far from where it started in Milky Way

— 16 Sep 2008 18:03 | Astronomy

A long-standing scientific belief holds that stars tend to hang out in the same general part of a galaxy where they originally formed. Some astrophysicists have recently questioned... — full story

Research shows clumps and streams of dark matter in inner regions of the Milky Way

— 7 Aug 2008 12:59 | Astronomy

Using one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world to simulate the halo of dark matter that envelopes our galaxy, researchers found dense clumps and streams of the mysterious... — full story

Using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that the Milky Way's elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Previously, our galaxy was thought to possess four major arms, (c) NASA, JPL-CaltechThe Milky Way has just two major arms of stars instead of the four

— 3 Jun 2008 19:37 | Astronomy

For decades, astronomers have been blind to what our galaxy, the Milky Way, really looks like. After all, we sit in the midst of it and can't step outside for a bird's eye view. Now,... — full story

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