Astronomers this week revealed that they have discovered a new type of star traveling fast enough to leave the Milky Way galaxy. The stars, dubbed “hypervelocity stars,” are different than other stars found traveling at such speeds as they did…
Astronomers Confirm Milky Way Particle Jet
Astronomers this week have revealed the confirmation that the black hole at the center of our galaxy is ejecting a stream of high-energy particles. The new findings have been published in The Astrophysical Journal. Researchers for some time have assumed…
8.8 Billion Earth-Like Planets Inhabit the Milky Way
The AP via NBC News took notice of a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: apparently, Earth is one of 8.8 billion similar planets in the Milky Way that fall inside the “Goldilocks…
Milky Way Galaxy “Geysers” Spotted
A team of astronomers has detected detected huge outflows of charged particles streaming out of the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The outflows were detected using the CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope in Australia, and the new research has…
NASA Spots Milky Way Black Hole “Flare-Up”
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has taken its first images of the giant black hole at the center of our galaxy and caught it in the middle of a “flare-up.” “We got lucky to have captured an outburst from…
Milky Way is Surrounded by Hot Gas, Says NASA
Astronomers at NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have found evidence that the Milky Way galaxy is surrounded by a halo of hot gas. Extending for hundreds of thousands of light years, the mass of the gas cloud is estimated to be…
NASA Reveals Milky Way Will Collide With Andromeda
Using sophisticated math and the Hubble telescope, NASA has determined that the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies are on a collision course…..in 4 billion years. Computer simulations taken from Hubble’s data show that it will take an additional two…
Billions Of Inhabitable Planets Found In Milky Way
People have wondered aloud for decades that if our planet one day became uninhabitable, would we be able to find a new home? Well until recently scientists had hypothesized that there were at most a couple thousand inhabitable planets in…