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 ...
That’s almost half the distance to Andromeda. This illustration shows the Milky Way galaxy's inner and outer halos. A halo is a spherical cloud of ... [+] stars surrounding a galaxy. Astronomers ...
By studying hot gas glowing in circumgalactic space, astrophysicists have found evidence of enormous magnetic fields that ...
has unveiled significant insights into the Milky Way: a magnetized galactic halo. This discovery challenges previous models of our galaxy's structure and evolution. Researchers have identified ...
This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way ... galaxy 270 million light years away, called IRAS 08339+6517. Although it was already known that the halo of ...
Since dark matter governs the motion of stellar streams, astronomers can use them to trace invisible dark matter in a galaxy. The Milky Way's galactic halo, a roughly spherical region surrounding ...