The Milky Way is our home galaxy, a vast collection of stars, planets, and other celestial objects bound together by gravity. It’s a barred spiral galaxy, which means it has a central bar-shaped ...
Two images of the Milky Way galaxy. The top is captured with visible light and the bottom is the first-ever captured with neutrinos. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...
This image shows the regions of the Milky Way mapped by the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) ... [+] survey and its companion project, the VVV eXtended survey (VVVX). VISTA is essentially ...
Seen in polarised light for the first time, the image above is of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way—or, rather, the magnetic field around its shadow.
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...