BBC5 年
Milky Way galaxy is warped and twisted, not flat
A new view of the Milky Way: Warped and twisted Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is "warped and twisted" and not flat as previously thought, new research shows. Analysis of the brightest stars in the ...
Phys.org11 天
It's been 100 years since we learned the Milky Way is not the only galaxy
Shapley used the period-luminosity relationship to estimate distances to other Cepheids across the Milky Way. This is how Shapley reached his estimate for our galaxy's size. But, in order for ...
HowStuffWorks on MSN3 个月
The Milky Way: Understanding Our Place in the Galaxy
The Milky Way, our celestial home, has fascinated astronomers for centuries. It is a vast galaxy, a large system that ...
New Scientist4 年
The Milky Way
Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...
BBC8 个月
ESA Gaia: Telescope uncovers the history of the milky way galaxy
A European Space Agency (ESA) telescope has discovered two ancient 'threads' of stars that wove together to form our home - the Milky Way. ESA's Gaia telescope identified the two threads of stars ...