SYFY WIRE Explore The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviewsBad Astronomy All Posts Tagged Milky Way Galaxy Over time, some stars get uncomfortably close to the Sun Several stars in the recent past have given us a cosmically close shave. By Phil Plait | 1 month ago A huge star forming in the galactic center had a close encounter with another star Nosy neighbor induces spirals in a newly forming star’s disk. By Phil Plait | 3 months ago The secret of the bulge: A gorgeous partially digested galaxy in the Milky Way’s core The star cluster Liller 1 is not what it appears. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago Our Milky Way galaxy’s last big collision still leaves clues 10 billion years later Undigested cosmic sausage reveals secrets of a massive galactic merger. By Phil Plait | 7 months ago Paradox! How did this 5-million-year-old star survive a 39-million-year journey? Oddball star may be lying about its age. By Phil Plait | 7 months ago Astronomers find the first rogue black hole wandering the Milky Way! If confirmed, it's the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ever found. By Phil Plait | 7 months ago A thousand-light-year-wide bubble around the Sun was blown by the ghosts of long-dead stars Local Bubble carved by supernova beginning 14 million years ago. By Phil Plait | 8 months ago Cool: The galaxy's oldest globular cluster has been found. Cooler: Our galaxy is eating it. Extremely ancient star cluster torn apart by the Milky Way. By Phil Plait | 8 months ago A weird blob that survived a close pass with a huge black hole is actually three stars enshrouded in dust G2 isn't one dust cloud, it's three, each with an embedded star. By Phil Plait | 8 months ago Amazing new images show stars flung around by the Milky Way's enormous central black hole Watch stars move under the influence of a supermassive black hole. By Phil Plait | 9 months ago Load More
Over time, some stars get uncomfortably close to the Sun Several stars in the recent past have given us a cosmically close shave. By Phil Plait | 1 month ago
A huge star forming in the galactic center had a close encounter with another star Nosy neighbor induces spirals in a newly forming star’s disk. By Phil Plait | 3 months ago
The secret of the bulge: A gorgeous partially digested galaxy in the Milky Way’s core The star cluster Liller 1 is not what it appears. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago
Our Milky Way galaxy’s last big collision still leaves clues 10 billion years later Undigested cosmic sausage reveals secrets of a massive galactic merger. By Phil Plait | 7 months ago
Paradox! How did this 5-million-year-old star survive a 39-million-year journey? Oddball star may be lying about its age. By Phil Plait | 7 months ago
Astronomers find the first rogue black hole wandering the Milky Way! If confirmed, it's the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ever found. By Phil Plait | 7 months ago
A thousand-light-year-wide bubble around the Sun was blown by the ghosts of long-dead stars Local Bubble carved by supernova beginning 14 million years ago. By Phil Plait | 8 months ago
Cool: The galaxy's oldest globular cluster has been found. Cooler: Our galaxy is eating it. Extremely ancient star cluster torn apart by the Milky Way. By Phil Plait | 8 months ago
A weird blob that survived a close pass with a huge black hole is actually three stars enshrouded in dust G2 isn't one dust cloud, it's three, each with an embedded star. By Phil Plait | 8 months ago
Amazing new images show stars flung around by the Milky Way's enormous central black hole Watch stars move under the influence of a supermassive black hole. By Phil Plait | 9 months ago
