The Milky Way's Stars Reveal Its Turbulent Past
The galaxy's stars keep a record of its history. By reading those stories, astronomers are learning more about how the Milky Way came to be—and about the galaxy we live in today.
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The galaxy's stars keep a record of its history. By reading those stories, astronomers are learning more about how the Milky Way came to be—and about the galaxy we live in today.
Besides being the only solar system to host life that we know of, there are plenty of other reasons to love our galactic home.
In December, January and February, we look away from the Milky Way's cloudy core toward the Orion arm, with stars so bright they capture our attention.
The Milky Way is our galactic home, but studying it has been notoriously difficult. Thanks to the European Gaia mission, astronomers are finally unravelling the galaxy's fascinating evolution.
Our entire solar system and some nearby stars may be surrounded by a vast magnetic tunnel, according to a Canadian scientist who has set out a unified theory to explain two existing features in space.