Astronomers have found the boundary of star formation in the Milky Way's spiral disk — and it's not as far out from the ...
The Milky Way galaxy’s fuzzy star-forming edge has finally been mapped, as researchers identify the major region of stellar ...
The center of our galaxy is an extreme place. Surrounding the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, stars are packed ...
An obvious conclusion is that they're all related and that SMBHs like Sgr A* in the Milky Way become so massive through a long sequence of mergers. When trying to piece together the Milky Way's SMBH ...
The center of our Milky Way galaxy is a mysterious place. Not only is it thousands of light-years away, it’s also cloaked in so much dust that most stars within are rendered invisible. Harvard ...
A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this strange place holds thousands of newborn stars, huge clouds of gas, and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Time is running out to see the iconic band of stars that comprise the center of the Milky Way. Our galaxy is positively teeming ...
New research led by Dr. James De Buizer at the SETI Institute and Dr. Wanggi Lim at IPAC at Caltech revealed surprising results about the rate at which high-mass stars form in the galactic center of ...
How far the Milky Way's disk extends has long been difficult to define—it doesn't end sharply, but fades away gradually at ...
The center of our galaxy is a frenzy of activity. A behemoth black hole — 4 million times as massive as the Sun — blasts out energy as it chows down on interstellar detritus while neighboring stars ...
For a star, its initial mass is everything. It determines how quickly it burns through its hydrogen and how it will evolve once it starts fusing heavier elements. It’s so well understood that ...
A detailed infrared view of the Galactic Center region of our Milky Way Galaxy. These infrared images are sensitive to the presently forming massive stars there as well as the emission from cool ...