Tag: Milky Way
The Milky Way seen from the four corners of the planet
Here is a very poetic way to admire the celestial vault in another way. With l’eye of the photographer Delil Geyik which has set its scene in the most beautiful…
We are passing through a huge gas bubble on the surface of which stars are forming
Our Solar System is navigating through a particularly empty region of space. Surrounded by a local bubble, as astronomers call it. And today, they tell us how this bubble was…
Dark matter around the Milky Way betrayed by star currents
The stellar currents that surround the Milky Way reveal a story in which it literally devoured a few of its fellow travelers. But they also deliver precious clues about the…
This discovery opens a new window on the early ages of star and galaxy formation
The newly launched James-Webb Space Telescope is expected to allow astronomers to probe the far reaches of the Universe in search of its oldest stars. But the discovery made by…
The Exploratorium: first sky map and beginnings of astronomy
The prehistoric peoples of northern Europe have long been called “barbarians”, basing their societies on a purely oral tradition. However, we now know that our ancestors had a relatively advanced…
Milky Way: Gaia would have revealed fossil spiral arms!
Astronomers continue to analyze data collected by the Gaia astrometric mission concerning nearly two billion stars in the Milky Way. They revealed curious structures that could be the fossil remains…
Supermassive black hole is believed to be hiding in dwarf galaxy near Milky Way
This is unheard of and questions the growth models of galaxies and supermassive black holes. The dwarf galaxy Leo I orbiting the Milky Way would contain at its center a…
There would be a supermassive black hole in a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way
This is unheard of and questions the growth models of galaxies and supermassive black holes. The dwarf galaxy Leo I orbiting the Milky Way would contain at its center a…
Magellan’s gas stream is 5 times closer to Earth and will collide faster
The Magellanic Current is the name that astronomers give to a huge flow of gas that winds around our Galaxy, the Milky Way. And today, researchers are suggesting that this…
Why do the stars have different colors?
Red, blue, white … The stars in the sky do not all have the same color. These differences are mainly explained by their temperature. You will also be interested [EN…