By peering into the cosmic dance of stars, a team led by researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP ...

Instead, the X-ray emitting hot gas was caused by a puffed-up region around the stellar disk of the Milky Way. Since there is continuous on-going star formation in various regions across the disk ...

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

The popular picture of the Milky Way as a flat disc is based on the observation of 2.5 million stars out of a possible 2.5 billion. The artists' impressions are therefore rough approximations of ...

The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.

The rotation of the Galaxy is not included in the video, only the precession with respect to it. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

It also has dust and clouds of gas held together by gravity. Our view of the Milky Way galaxy is from the edge of the disc. It appears as a flattened spiral galaxy with a central halo of stars.

These galaxies go far back in the Universe’s history with many of these galaxies forming 10 billion years ago or longer. The Milky Way is a typical ‘disk’ galaxy, which a shape similar to a pancake or ...

"Our map shows the Milky Way disk is not flat. It is warped and twisted far away from the Galactic center," study co-author Przemek Mroz said in a video. "This is the first time we can use ...

It is also called the “Cigar Galaxy” because of the elliptical shape produced by the oblique tilt of its starry disk relative to our line of sight. Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage ...

Previous observations of high-velocity clouds within the galactic disk of the Milky Way show that HVCs comprise a fraction of a percent of baryonic matter there. A simple extrapolation to the halo ...