Milky Way News - Space Science News RSS Feeds from Brightsurf Science NewsSpace Science :: Milky WayMilky Way News Stories, Current Milky Way News Events, Discoveries and Articleshttp://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Milky_Way Milky Way News Stories Current Milky Way News Events, Discoveries and Articles Hubble's sweeping view of the Coma Galaxy Cluster The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the Universe. (2008-06-10) Team hopes to use new technology to search for ETs A Johns Hopkins astronomer is a member of a team briefing fellow scientists about plans to use new technology to take advantage of recent, promising ideas on where to search for possible extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy. (2008-06-05) CSI: Milky Way team works scene of dead star Like a team of forensic detectives in a television show that could be called "CSI: Milky Way," a University of Chicago astrophysicist and his associates are piecing together how a mysterious infrared ring got left around a dead star that displays a magnetic field trillions of times more intense than Earth's. (2008-05-29) Discovery of most recent supernova in our galaxy The most recent supernova in our Galaxy has been discovered by tracking the rapid expansion of its remains. This result, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and NRAO's Very Large Array (VLA), has implications for understanding how often supernovas explode in the Milky Way galaxy. (2008-05-15) heic0812: The Antennae Galaxies move closer New research on the Antennae Galaxies using the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows that this benchmark pair of interacting galaxies is in fact much closer than previously thought - 45 million light-years instead of 65 million light-years (2008-05-12) Compact galaxies in early Universe pack a big punch Using the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer onboard of the Hubble NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have made observations of young, surprisingly compact galaxies, each only 5,000 light-years across, but weighing 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. (2008-04-30) Galaxies gone wild! Interacting galaxies are found throughout the Universe, sometimes as dramatic collisions that trigger bursts of star formation, on other occasions as stealthy mergers that result in new galaxies. (2008-04-24) The Drifting Star By studying in great detail the 'ringing' of a planet-harbouring star, a team of astronomers using ESO's 3.6-m telescope have shown that it must have drifted away from the metal-rich Hyades cluster. This discovery has implications for theories of star and planet formation, and for the dynamics of our Milky Way. (2008-04-16) Milky Way's Giant Black Hole Awoke from Slumber 300 Years Ago Using NASA, Japanese, and European X-ray satellites, a team of Japanese astronomers has discovered that our galaxy's central black hole let loose a powerful flare three centuries ago. (2008-04-16) Old galaxies stick together in the young universe UK astronomers have developed the most sensitive infrared map of the distant universe ever produced, revealing the origins of the most massive galaxies in the cosmos. (2008-04-07) |
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