Milky Way

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ESA’s trippy time-lapse video travels 1.6 million years into the Milky Way’s future

Elizabeth Rayne

Dec 12, 2020

Gaia Milky Way projection

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: globular clusters

Astronomers see the Milky Way eating one of its own

Phil Plait

Oct 19, 2020

M92, a globular cluster about 27,000 light years from Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: Gilles Chapdelaine

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: globular clusters

Tag: star formation

Is the Milky Way evolving right before our eyes? Something it just spewed out could mean exactly that

Elizabeth Rayne

Aug 26, 2020

NASA image of the Milky Way

Tag: star formation

Tag: Bad Astronomy

The fastest star in the galaxy has been found, and yeah, it’s really *really* fast

Phil Plait

Aug 17, 2020

A simulation showing the positions and orbits of stars orbiting the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/spaceengine.org

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Alien Life

New research paper theorizes there might be 36 alien civilizations in the Milky Way

Jeff Spry

Jun 18, 2020

Tag: Alien Life

Tag: Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Space Telescope snaps ultra-clear image of 13-billion-year-old globular cluster

Jeff Spry

Jun 5, 2020

Tag: Hubble Space Telescope

Our solar system emerged from the Milky Way and another galaxy smashing into each other

Elizabeth Rayne

May 28, 2020

Tag: Bad Astronomy

How big is the Milky Way?

Phil Plait

Mar 31, 2020

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.

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: supermassive black holes

Astronomers find a star dive-bombing our galaxy's supermassive black hole

Phil Plait

Feb 12, 2020

A simulation showing the positions and orbits of stars orbiting the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/spaceengine.org

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: supermassive black holes

The Milky Way head-butted another galaxy billions of years ago

Elizabeth Rayne

Jan 16, 2020

NASA image of a galactic merger

Stare into the cosmic core of NASA's detailed new Milky Way galaxy image

Jeff Spry

Jan 9, 2020

Tag: Bad Astronomy

A billion years ago the Milky Way had a huge burst of star birth

Phil Plait

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.

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Our local supermassive black hole shot a star right out of the galaxy

Phil Plait

Nov 13, 2019

Artwork depicting the ejection of one star in a binary system by a supermassive black hole. Credit: James Josephides (Swinburne Astronomy Productions)

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Super spiral galaxies are huge and bright… and spin *really* rapidly

Phil Plait

Oct 21, 2019

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)

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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)

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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