The New History of the Milky Way

The Milky Way Assembly Tale - Plot and characters as of today, and ...

Our knowledge of the Milky Way's assembly history has been revolutionised by the advent of the Gaia mission. Since the availability of kinematic information ...

Essay by Moiya McTier, author of The Milky Way - BookPage

How did an ancient galaxy pen its own autobiography? The Milky Way explains in this Behind the Book essay, as dictated to Dr. McTier.

The Milky Way Galaxy - Imagine the Universe! - NASA

Our Galaxy is a spiral galaxy that formed approximately 14 billion years ago. Contained in the Milky Way are stars, clouds of dust and gas called nebulae, ...

A new book lets the Milky Way speak for itself — and it's kind of a jerk

A new book, "The Milky Way: An Autobiography of our Galaxy," by astrophysicist Moiya McTier, imagines our galaxy using its own voice to ...

Rensselaer Researchers Upend Theory About the Formation of the ...

New findings suggest that our galaxy's last major collision was billions of years later than previously thought.

The Milky Way: One of the Many Galaxies | Modeling the Cosmos

In 1750, English astronomer Thomas Wright, published An original theory or new hypothesis of the Universe. In this book, Wright speculated that the Milky Way ...

Integral rolls back history of Milky Way's super-massive black hole

The centre of our galaxy has been known for years to host a black hole, a 'super-massive' yet very quiet one. New observations with Integral, ...

Milky Way's origins are not what they seem - Northwestern Now

By tracking in detail the complex flows of matter in the simulations, the research team found that gas flows from smaller galaxies to larger ...

Milky Way & Stellar Evolution | Carnegie Science

The Milky Way is an excellent laboratory for understanding the forces that shaped our own and other galaxies and the evolution of the universe.

What was it like when the Milky Way grew up? - Big Think

Our galaxy today, in other words, is the result of 13.8 billion years of cosmic evolution, where large numbers of small proto-galaxies merged ...

Meet the Milky Way | New Humanist

While the Milky Way's lifetime is long, McTier tells its story in a quick-to-read 200-something pages, jam-packed with science. The Milky Way ...

Astronomers Baffled by Ancient Galaxy That Mirrors Modern Milky Way

Astronomers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy ever observed, named REBELS-25. This disc galaxy appears as orderly as those ...

The History of the “Galaxy,” from Chaucer to the Clash with ... - Medium

With increasingly powerful lenses, we came to understand that the Milky Way is light from a group of so many distant stars that we cannot ...

Milky Way Galaxy | Size, Definition, & Facts - Britannica

It takes its name from the Milky Way, the irregular luminous band of stars and gas clouds that stretches across the sky as seen from Earth. Although Earth lies ...

How the Milky Way got its name - CBS News

The Greek myth about the Milky Way's formation was immortalized by Renaissance artist Jacopo Tintoretto in the painting “The Origin of the Milky ...

A look back in time reveals Milky Way's evolution - Science News

A sample of galaxies covering 11 billion years of cosmic history helps astronomers document how the Milky Way evolved.

Coming of Age In the Milky Way - The New York Times

It is an exhilarating, wide-ranging journey that takes us from the shores of the Mediterranean, where the second-century astronomer Claudius Ptolemy fashioned ...

Cosmic bombshell may change everything we know about the Milky ...

TROY, N.Y. — A stunning new study may upend everything we know about our cosmic home — the Milky Way galaxy. According to researchers from the ...

Lecture 17. Discovering the Milky Way.

Map of the Milky Way in galactic coordinates created in 1955 by Martin and Tatjana Kesküla under the direction of Swedish astronomer, Knut Lundmark (1889-1958).

Reconstructing the star formation history of the Milky Way disc(s ...

We develop a chemical evolution model to study the star formation history of the Milky Way. Our model assumes that the Milky Way has formed from a closed-box- ...