An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

The Milky Way galaxy is our cosmic home. ... – Rotation time: 250 million years. Our home galaxy's disk is about 100,000 light-years in diameter and just 1000 light-years thick, ...

This allowed him to capture various images of how the sky’s appearance changed as the Earth rotated, giving us different views of the Milky Way and the night sky as a whole.

Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...

Astronomers can also learn about the Milky Way's rotation by studying the redshift and blueshift of the 21 cm radiation. When an object in space moves away from us, ...

The colossal black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning almost as fast as its maximum rotation rate.

In 2019, Anna-Christina Eilers, assistant professor of physics at MIT, worked to chart the Milky Way's rotation curve, using an earlier batch of data released by the Gaia satellite.

A new study done by physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that stars at the edge of the Milky Way travel more slowly than those closer to the center.

They found that to find another galaxy just as outsized in its own wall as the Milky Way is, you'd have to travel 160–200 megaparsecs, or between around 521,600,000 and 652,000,000 light years.

REBELS-25 is much younger than our galaxy, but it already shares its rotation and structure, rather than appearing clumpy and chaotic like other early galaxies, the researchers said in a statement ...

It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy ...