The Milky Way’s ‘thick disk’ is 2 billion years older than scientists thought
Misjudging someone’s age can be awkward… especially when you’re off by a few billion years. That may be the case with our Milky Way galaxy,...
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Astronomers discover massive radio galaxy 100 times larger than the Milky Way
Astronomers have discovered the largest radio galaxy ever, stretching at least 16 million light-years through space, new research shows. The galaxy — named Alcyoneus after...
The Milky Way’s outer reaches may have lumpy, choppy arms
We may need to check our assumptions about how the Milky Way looks to an outsider. While the typical artist’s image of our galaxy suggests...
Enormous ‘cavity’ in the Milky Way being masked by a cosmic illusion
Two clouds of gas, both alike in dignity, appear side by side in the fair Milky Way. Known as “molecular clusters,” these enormous provinces of...