The Milky Way’s Stars Reveal Its Turbulent Past
The galaxy's stars keep a record of its history. By reading those stories, astronomers are learning more about how the Milky Way came to be—and about ..
The galaxy's stars keep a record of its history. By reading those stories, astronomers are learning more about how the Milky Way came to be—and about ..
The largest catalog ever collected by a single telescope maps Earth’s 3 billion stellar neighbors—and helps track the dust that warps how we see them. ..
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s key instrument is almost ready to be installed on the telescope, where it will image tens of billions of cosmic objects. ..
Supermassive black holes are engines of galactic evolution, but new observations of our galaxy and its central hole don’t quite match expectations. ..
New data from the ESA’s probe, now eight years into its mission, adds significant detail to its portrait of nearly 2 billion objects in the Milky Way. ..
A new simulation aims to determine whether the standard view of dark matter can explain how unique our galaxy’s neighborhood is. ..
Physicists calculated that these mysterious particles will betray their location with heat. To prove it, they’ll need the most powerful telescopes in the cosmos. ..