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Milky Way Galaxy Ejects Newborn Stars Into Its Outer Halo

Sijie Yu, a physicist from UC Irvine, has recently published a study in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The review resumes on the work she and her scientific team has done in investigating Milky Way galaxy’s behavior.…

May 5, 2020 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

Computer Simulations Revealed That Milky Way Catapults Stars in the Outer Halo

The researchers have proven that the clusters of supernovas are responsible for the creation of scattered stars, which represent suns that orbit in an unconventional way in the outer stellar halos of the Milky Way galaxy. Therefore, this discovery is…

April 21, 2020 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

Satellite Gaia Identified That Milky Way’s Warp Is Due To A Collision With Another Galaxy

One of the astronomers’ questions about why is Milky Way warped might get an answer after so many years. Information about ESA’s star-mapping satellite Gaia indicates the distortion might be the cause of a continuous impact with another galaxy. Such…

March 4, 2020 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

Oxygen Found Outside the Milky Way Is Too Much to Be Breathed

For the first time, scientists found oxygen emissions outside the Milky Way. Junzhi Wang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a new paper that brings proof of the discovery. The guilty party is Markarian 231, and the instrument proving…

February 23, 2020 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

Supermassive Black Hole In The Milky Way Made A Star Go Rogue

In the middle of the Milky Way, there is a supermassive black hole which generates an extraordinary gravitational pull. The forces generated by these supermassive black holes are so intense that they can absorb light, and it was believed that…

July 31, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

Milky Way Merged With Another Galaxy, New Research Revealed

Last year marked the discovery of Antlia galaxy that is apparently merging with the Milky Way. We may be forgiven for not detecting the massive universal body sooner due to the fact that scientists are describing it as a sort…

June 14, 2019 ·by Anna Daniels· 0

Hubble Space Telescope Revealed That Milky Way Galaxy Burst With Stars Due To Collision With Another Galaxy

NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has yet again provided scientists with significant data. An image captured by the space telescope depicts the peculiar galaxy NGC 4485, showing signs of a collision. The impact looks like a hit-and-run accident with…

May 20, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

Gaia Satellite Data Reveals Details About The Early Stages Of Milky Way

A new paper, published in April in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, details how a galactic merger in our galaxy might have made a star “baby boom” billions of years ago. The research was completed with the help of data…

May 14, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

The “Lost Twin” Of The Milky Way Found 2 Billion Years After It Collided And Merged With Andromeda Galaxy

Researchers at the University of Michigan have found that Andromeda, the closest nearby galaxy to the Milky Way, collided and merged with a massive galaxy about 2 billion years ago. Now, the scientists identified the disappeared galaxy as the “lost…

July 25, 2018 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0

Early Milky Way Collided With A Dwarf Galaxy, Dubbed As The “Sausage Galaxy,” Recent Studies Found

The Milky Way was engaged in a frontal collision with a smaller dwarf galaxy, dubbed as “Sausage galaxy,” at the beginning of its history, an incident that reconfigured the architecture of our Galaxy, a recent study found. Based on information gathered…

July 5, 2018 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0