Tagged: Milky Way

Turns out it’s not just Superman who flies faster than a speeding bullet. Our Milky Way galaxy has been blasting mysterious, cold gas clouds out from the galactic center “like bullets,” according to a new study. What’s more, scientists aren’t sure how the gas was...

It’s a cosmic first and lasted just 1.5 milliseconds. Read more:Mysterious superpowerful blasts of radio waves once seen only outside the galaxy have for the first time been detected within the Milky Way, new studies find. In addition, scientists have traced these outbursts back to...

Our galaxy was built on collisions — and this one may be the largest ever. The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, but it didn’t come by them all honestly. At least a dozen times over the last 12 billion years, the Milky...

The night sky will appear completely different half a million years from now. Researchers figured out what it’ll look like Have you ever seen 40,000 shooting stars blaze across the sky at the same time? If you’d like to, the European Space Agency (ESA) is...

Most of the alien civilizations that ever dotted our galaxy have probably killed themselves off already. That’s the takeaway of a new study, published Dec. 14 to the arXiv database, which used modern astronomy and statistical modeling to map the emergence and death of intelligent...

The enormous crash, which will fling the Sun into a different orbit, is now an absolute certainty, NASA astronomers announced The Milky Way will smash into the neighbouring Andromeda galaxy in a titanic head on cosmic collision – in four billion years time. The galaxy...

A stunning view of the Milky Way was taken by a local photographer who hopes to get more people interested in fascinating astro-shots. Stewart Gray from Bellshill took a trip up to Rannoch Moor in the Highlands, before Covid restrictions were tightened, to capture the...

If extraterrestrial civilizations exist, we may not have to go too far to find them. A new study from researchers at the U.K.’s University of Nottingham suggests there are 36 planets in the Milky Way galaxy, a calculation the experts have dubbed “the Astrobiological Copernican...

A flash of luck helped astronomers solve a cosmic mystery: What causes powerful but fleeting radio bursts that zip and zigzag through the universe? Scientists have known about these energetic pulses — called fast radio bursts — for about 13 years and have seen them...

No one can say for certain whether extraterrestrial civilizations exist, but one new study suggests the Milky Way is full of them, though many could be dead. The research, which can be read on the arXiv repository, was written by experts at NASA’s Jet Propulsion...