A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...
Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, Adrian Price-Whelan ...
On the left side of the animation, numbers indicate the speeds of Earth's rotation, its orbit around the sun, the solar system's orbit around the Milky Way's center, and the galaxy hurtling ...
within the Milky Way galaxy. This composite image, below, shows an animated version of the Christmas Tree Cluster where its blue and white X-ray lights blink: This composite image shows the ...
Bottom: An animated gif of the same galaxy that scrolls through ... Galaxies are vast collections of billions of stars. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of probably about a trillion galaxies in ...