Milky Way

NASA image of a galactic merger
The Milky Way head-butted another galaxy billions of years ago
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Stare into the cosmic core of NASA's detailed new Milky Way galaxy image
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A billion years ago the Milky Way had a huge burst of star birth
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Dec 17, 2019
The central region of the Milky Way surveyed in GALACTICNUCLEUS, an infrared study of over 3 million stars. Credit: ESO/Nogueras-Lara et al.
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Our local supermassive black hole shot a star right out of the galaxy
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Nov 13, 2019
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Artwork depicting the ejection of one star in a binary system by a supermassive black hole. Credit: James Josephides (Swinburne Astronomy Productions)
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Super spiral galaxies are huge and bright… and spin *really* rapidly
Phil Plait
Oct 21, 2019
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Super spirals are huge spiral galaxies far larger and more massive than the Milky Way. Credit: NASA, ESA, P. Ogle and J. DePasquale (STScI). Bottom row: SDSS, P. Ogle and J. DePasquale (STScI)
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The Milky Way stole a lot of its satellite galaxies from another small galaxy
Phil Plait
Oct 15, 2019
The Milky Way is a disk galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars. A new study indicates it underwent a burst of vigorous star formation that peaked about 2 billion years ago. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Caltech)
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The day our galaxy exploded
Phil Plait
Oct 10, 2019
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Artwork showing the outburst from the center of the Milky Way and the Magellanic Stream of gas coming out of satellite galaxies. Credit: James Josephides/ASTRO 3D
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Where is the Sun located in the Milky Way?
Phil Plait
Oct 2, 2019
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The most current map of the Milky Way is shown in an artist’s representation. The Sun is directly below the galactic center, near the Orion Spur. The Scutum-Centaurus arms sweeps out to the right and above, going behind the center to the far side.
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Where did this tiny ghostly galaxy Segue-1 come from?
Phil Plait
Jun 11, 2019
The location of the teeny tiny galaxy Segue-1, which is pretty much too faint to even see in this image, despite being right in the center. Credit: SIMBAD / DSS
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Two billion years ago, our galaxy had a burst of star birth
Phil Plait
May 23, 2019
The Milky Way is a disk galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars. A new study indicates it underwent a burst of vigorous star formation that peaked about 2 billion years ago. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Caltech)
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We live in a warped galaxy, say new observations of the Milky Way
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May 13, 2019
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NASA image of warped galaxy
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See the Milky Way from its center with NASA’s 4K 360-degree VR simulation
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Mar 27, 2019
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NASA Milky Way VR experience
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What is the mass of the Milky Way?
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Mar 8, 2019
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The most current map of the Milky Way is shown in an artist’s representation. The Sun is directly below the galactic center, near the Orion Spur. The Scutum-Centaurus arms sweeps out to the right and above, going behind the center to the far side.
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Breathe easy: You have an extra 600 million years before Andromeda crashes into us
Phil Plait
Feb 11, 2019
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Illustration of a cosmic train wreck: The Milky Way/Andromeda galaxy collision, four billion years from now. Credit: NASA, ESA, Z. Levay and R. van der Marel (STScI), T. Hallas, and A. Mellinger
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The Milky Way ate another galaxy, and we can still see the undigested bits
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Nov 6, 2018
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Artwork depicting the stars from Gaia-Enceladus (arrows indicate their velocity) merging with the Milky Way based on actual physical simulations.
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The Milky Way’s sibling spiral star system
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Oct 19, 2018
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The central region of the gorgeous spiral galaxy NGC 6744, imaged using the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the LEGUS team
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