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The ESA's Gaia satellite has made the first measurement of the twirling bar of stars at the centre of the Milky Way.

by Robert Lea 17th July 2019 Comments0

Science & Technology

Mapping the Milky Way: Galactic bar measured by Gaia

The ESA’s Gaia satellite has made the first measurement of the twirling bar of stars at the centre of the Milky Way.

The region of the stellar formation Rho Ophiuchi observed by ESA Gaia satellite. The shining dots are stellar clusters with the massive and youngest stars of the region. The dark filaments track the gas and dust distribution, where the new stars are born. This is not a conventional photographic image but the result of the integration of all the received radiation by the satellite during the 22 months of continuous measurements through different filters on the spacecraft (ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)

by Robert Lea 9th May 2019 Comments0

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Star formation burst caused by a galactic crash 2–3 billion years ago

A collision between our galaxy - the Milky Way - and another 2 -3 billion years ago could have been the cause of the creation of more than half the stars in the galactic disc.

A slightly exaggerated impression of the real shape of our warped and twisted Milky Way ( Chao Liu (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences))

by Robert Lea 4th February 2019 Comments0

Science & Technology

The Milky Way is in a twist reveals 3D map of our galaxy

The first accurate 3D map of our galaxy, the Milky Way, reveals that it is warped and twisted.

by Ashleigh Naysmith 5th November 2016 Comments0

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Searching space for the Primordial Soup

The Primordial Soup. That well known prebiotic amalgam of simple, organic molecules that miraculously conglomerate and just like that, life is created. Well,…

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