Stars move in peanut-shell shaped orbits at center of galaxy

Last Updated: Thursday, November 28, 2013, 15:14

A new study suggests that the stars probably move in peanut-shell or figure of eight-shaped orbits instead.

Evidence of jet in Milky Way`s supermassive black hole found

Last Updated: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 19:09

Astronomers, who have long sought strong evidence that Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, is producing a jet of high-energy particles, have finally found it.

Stars born in different sites differ in weight

Last Updated: Sunday, November 10, 2013, 15:23

The Herschel Space Observatory has revealed that the star forming sites across the Milky Way are riddled with filaments.

One in five stars in Milky Way circled by Earth-like planets

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2013, 19:50

Twenty per cent of Sun-like stars in our Milky Way galaxy have Earth-sized planets that could potentially host life, a new study has found.

One in five Milky Way stars may have Earth-like planets: Study

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2013, 09:28

One out of every five sun-like stars in the Milky Way galaxy has a planet about the size of Earth that is properly positioned for water, a key ingredient for life, a study released on Monday showed.

Magnetic `force field` to shield giant gas cloud during crash with Milky Way Galaxy

Last Updated: Friday, November 1, 2013, 12:58

Astronomers have found that doom may be averted for the Smith Cloud, a gigantic streamer of hydrogen gas that is on a collision course with the Milky Way Galaxy, because of a magnetic field deep in the cloud`s interior may protect it during its plunge.

New methods could make Milky Way supernova visible from Earth in next 50 yrs

Last Updated: Friday, November 1, 2013, 12:46

Astronomers have deduced that sometime during the next 50 years, a supernova occurring in Milky Way galaxy is going to be visible from Earth.

Milky Way `swallows gas clouds wrapped in magnetic field` to give birth to stars

Last Updated: Friday, November 1, 2013, 12:40

Milky Way may have been swallowing "pills" - clouds of gas with a magnetic wrapper - to keep creating stars for the past eight billion years.

Astronomers` team in US discovers most distant galaxy

Last Updated: Monday, October 28, 2013, 10:50

A team of astronomers, including an Indian-origin scientist, has discovered the most distant galaxy in the universe ever found which is said to be 13 billion light years away from the Earth.

Violent past of Milky Way`s giant black hole revealed

Last Updated: Saturday, October 26, 2013, 11:29

NASA`s Chandra X-ray Observatory has helped find evidence that the normally dim region very close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, flared up with at least two luminous outbursts in the past few hundred years.