In 1950, while sitting down to lunch with colleagues at the Los Alamos Laboratory, famed physicist and nuclear scientist Enrico…
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The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, maybe even a grand design spiral galaxy. We can't be sure from…
Thanks to its infrared capabilities, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) allows astronomers to peer through the gas and dust…
The Milky Way can't hold onto all of its stars. Some of them get ejected into intergalactic space and spend…
The ESA's Gaia mission is releasing a new tranche of astronomical data. The mission has released three regular, massive hauls…
When you launch humanity's most powerful telescope, you expect results. The JWST has delivered excellent results by detecting ancient galaxies,…
There's an unusual object near the Milky Way's heart that astronomers call "The Brick." It's a massive cloud of gas…
Until recently, there were only ten known stars on trajectories that will allow them to escape the Milky Way Galaxy,…
What is the mass of the Milky Way? What do you get if you add up all the stars, gas,…