For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...
A long-held dream in astronomy has finally come into reach, and it carries a surprising emotional weight. For years, ...
Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.
Researchers have successfully performed the world's first Milky Way simulation that accurately represents more than 100 ...
"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...
Astronomers have identified a compact, superheated galaxy in the early universe that is churning out new suns at roughly 180 ...
An international team of astrophysicists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI, USA) has discovered ...
An high resolution image is available at http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2008/phot-30-08.html Pulsating stars enable a new precise determination of ...
If you've never gotten a good luck at the Milky Way galaxy, you'll have that opportunity on Fourth of July weekend. "The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," ...