Planet Friendships in Solar Systems Beyond Our Own
Our understanding of astrophysics states that we should be seeing co-orbiting planets when astronomers look through their telescopes.…
Category: Astronomy
Two Galaxy Centers in Terrifyingly Fast Orbits
At the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, there is a supermassive black hole. This is normal — at the center of almost every galaxy there is…
Stray stars between galaxies add to the cosmic light in the universe
Using an experiment carried into space on a NASA suborbital rocket, astronomers at Caltech and their colleagues have detected a diffuse…
First detection of dark matter
Cutting-edge paper by Professor George Fraser — who tragically died in March this year — and colleagues at the University of…
Huge galaxies grow by eating nearby smaller ones
Massive galaxies in the Universe have stopped making their own stars and are instead snacking on nearby galaxies, according to research by…
Milky Way belongs to supercluster of galaxies named Laniakea
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) — among other telescopes — have determined…