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13.07.2023 - A now iconic collage showing 22 individual well-known PNe, artistically arranged in a spiral pattern by order of approximate physical size. A collaboration of scientists from The University of Manchester and the University of Hong Kong have found a source for the mysterious alignment of stars near the Galactic Centre.
Some force is causing tight star systems across the inner galaxy to line up, but we still don’t know what it is.
The PIGS survey sought out—and found—a group of metal-poor stars staying close to the galaxy’s core.
Posted by Andy Briggs in Astronomy Essentials | Space | February 16, 2021 When someone says “Milky Way,” do you think of the starry pathway across our sky, or of the great pinwheel-shaped galaxy in space? Both are correct! View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Michael Zuber caught the bright planets Jupiter and Saturn – above the building in this photo – near the starry band of the Milky Way, from Terlingua, Texas, on November 11, 2020. Thank you, Michael. Do you think of the Milky Way as a starry band across a dark night sky? Or do you think of it as a great spiral galaxy...
Astronomers Found a 'Benjamin Button' Galaxy Photo: MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images (Getty Images) At 1.2 billion years young, the galaxy ALESS 073.1 should have the chaotic look of a youthful galaxy—a fledging, diffuse group of stars and gas suspended in the early universe. Instead, this primordial starburst galaxy has a central bulge and rotating belt that makes it look billions of years older. This odd corner of the universe was recently imaged by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array in Chile. Advertisement An international team of astronomers dug into the nascent galaxy’s rapid dev...