A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as it tracks a course to collide with neighbouring galaxies, a University of Queensland survey has found.
Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research have created the largest low-frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way ever assembled.
The chance that our Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy may not be as certain as previously thought, according to Aussie researchers, who say that a new simulation has found a 50% chance that there will be no collision between the two galaxies in the next 10 billion years.
Astronomers have found that it is not how much gas a galaxy has, but where that gas is located, that determines whether new stars form.
Dr Themiya Nanayakkara at Swinburne University has made a surprising space discovery – a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which is three times larger than similar galaxies at the same epoch.
Two new stars have been found dancing near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, according to international researchers, who say the binary star system was predicted to be there but has escaped detection until now.
A new paper published in Nature has revealed an international team has identified three ultra-massive galaxies – nearly as massive as the Milky Way – already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang.
Detailed observations of a low-mass galaxy known as Firefly Sparkle that formed when the Universe was around 600 million years old provides insights into early galaxy formation, according to international researchers.
Australian scientists have released data from a massive stellar mapping survey that’s analysed nearly 1 million stars in the Milky Way.
A shroud of gas stretches up to a million light years around every galaxy and is its first interaction with the wider Universe beyond.
The world’s most sensitive detector sets new limits for finding weakly interacting massive particles or WIMPs
A longstanding ‘conspiracy’ in astronomy – that stars and dark matter are interacting in inexplicable ways – has been overturned.
This concludes more than 10 years of its planetary defense mission
An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to produce the highest-resolution image of spectacular exploding stars ever seen.
An international team led by Australian research centre ASTRO 3D reports that age is the driving force in changing how stars move within galaxies.
