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Does the Milky Way orbit anything?
Space via Yahoo News· 6 days agoMoons orbit planets. Planets orbit stars. Stars orbit the centers of galaxies. But beyond that, things get a little harder to visualize. Do galaxies —...
Rogue planets may originate from 'twisted Tatooine' double star systems
SPACE.com· 5 hours agoAs it turns out, some of the planets in the real-life versions of these systems may have been...
The Milky Way's heart shines over construction site of world's largest telescope
Space via Yahoo News· 6 days agoConstruction of the Extremely Large Telescope has reached another milestone, with the completion of...
Best Night Sky Events for June
Coeur d'Alene Press· 47 minutes agoIn early June, two visible planets and the waning crescent moon will be strung along the ecliptic (green line) in the eastern sky before sunrise. From...
How many stars in the Milky Way die each year?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIn fact, that will be the fate of our own sun in roughly 5 billion years. But how quickly does the night sky change, and in our galaxy, the Milky Way,...
Massive, magnetic stars beyond the Milky Way detected for the 1st time
SPACE.com· 3 days agoFor the first time, astronomers have detected the magnetic fields of massive, blazingly hot stars...
We build Lego's official Artemis SLS and Milky Way Galaxy
The Register· 6 days agoHands-On Lego has added plastic brick representations of NASA's Space Launch System and the Milky ...
Hot Gas is Being Vented Away from the Center of the Milky Way
Universe Today· 5 days agoThe Chandra X-Ray observatory has been observing a vent of hot gas blowing away from the centre of...
Three of the universe's oldest stars have just been identified — and they're in our cosmic backyard
GBH News· 4 days agoThree undergraduate students in an astronomy class at MIT, led by their professor, discovered something extraordinary on the edge of our own galaxy, the Milky Way ...
'Parade of planets' on June 3: Here's what it will really look like
ABC 7 Chicago· 5 days agoBefore skywatchers begin their countdown for the brief planetary alignment expected next month, some astronomical debunking has proved there may be less of a sky show after all. In the early ...
