which allowed them to determine the size of the halo. Because of its mass and proximity to the Milky Way, the LMC is a unique astrophysics laboratory. Seeing the LMC's interplay with our galaxy ...

Magnetic fields in the halo of the Milky Way have a toroidal structure, extending in the radius range of 6000 light-year to 50,000 light-year from the Galaxy center. The Sun is at about 30,000 ...

Astronomers have made the most detailed infrared map of our galaxy ever made ... the scientists monitored the central regions ...

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. A light-year is a unit to measure distance in space ...

That’s a whole lot of data, and it’s already being used to create some stunning visualizations of what the Milky Way looks ... at our home galaxy. Along with that sky map, the ESA also ...

to explore supernova wreckage in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The supernova remnant in question is MC SNR J0519–6902, first discovered in 1981.

This illustration shows the Milky Way galaxy's inner and outer halos. A halo is a spherical cloud of stars surrounding a galaxy. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...