SPACE: The Milky Way Is Warped
There’s trouble brewing at the edge of the Milky Way: New measurements suggest that a peculiar distortion of the galactic disk is hardly moving, contradicting earlier reports. As yet, nobody … Read more
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How Long is a Galactic Year?
Humans are used to keeping time by measuring Earth’s movement relative to the sun. But while Earth’s trips around its star are noteworthy to life on our pale blue dot, … Read more
SPACE: Hoag’s Object is the Turducken of Galaxies
Look closely at the serpent constellation slithering through the northern sky, and you might see a galaxy within a galaxy within a galaxy. This cosmic turducken is known as Hoag’s … Read more
SPACE: Where’s the Missing Dark Matter?
Nineteen newly discovered dwarf galaxies seem to be missing their dark matter, and physicists aren’t sure why. The find dramatically increases the number of galaxies that appear to be missing … Read more
NASA: The Best Way to Conquer the Galaxy
A team of Chinese researchers has won a NASA competition to design the best-possible method for humans to colonize the galaxy. Their plan for the construction of an interstellar human … Read more
SPACE: Is the Drake Equation Useless?
For the precocious hunter of off-Earth life, the Drake equation is the ever-ready, go-to toolkit for estimating just how (not) lonely humans are in the Milky Way galaxy. The equation was developed … Read more
SPACE: Crossing the Milkyway
The disk of our home galaxy – the Milky Way – is bigger than we previously thought. A new study shows it would take 200,000 years for a spaceship traveling … Read more
SPACE: It’s an Epic Clash of Galaxies
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is on a collision course with its neighbor Andromeda. Although the collision will take place about 4 billion years from now, astronomers have long placed … Read more