Milky Way Galaxy

Origin of the Milky Way Galaxy:

The early days of the Milky Way revealed

Stars memorize rebirth of our home galaxy

Study details early impacts that shaped the Miiky Way

A glimpse of the violent past of Milky Way's black hole

Milky Way struck 100 million years ago, still rings like a bell

Gallactic archaeologists trace the evolution of the Milky Way

New stars discovery shed new light on our Galaxy's formation 

Milky Way-like galaxies may have existed in the early universe 

A new stellar chemo-kinematic relation reveals the merger history of the Milky Way disc

Age of the Milky Way:

Age map of the Milky Way

Oldest stars found near Milky Way centre

A Star as old as the Universe found in Milky Way

Mass of the Milky Way:

Is the Milky Way getting bigger?

How do you weigh the Milky Way galaxy?

Scientists close in on the true mass of the Milky Way

Measuring the Milky Way: one massive problem, one new solution

Shape of the Milky Way:

How the Milky Way got its Spiral

A beast with 4 tails     Around the Milky Way galaxy in 11.5 years

Internal structure & dynamics of the Milky Way:

Inside the Milky Way

How Typical is the Milky Way?

Study sheds light on Milky Way

Hunt for filaments in the Milky Way

Color of the Milky Way Determined

A giant stellar void in the Milky Way

Hypervelocity stars in the Milky Way

Milky Way filled with wandering stars

New component of Milky Way discovered 

Our galaxy is under pressure to make stars

New GAIA data reveals mergers in Milky Way

Detecting dusty clouds and stars in our galaxy

Tracing the Milky Way's hidden reservoirs of gas

Star formation in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies

A runaway star ejected from the galactic heart of darkness

A cold Milky Way stellar stream in the direction of Triangulum

Astronomers find giant, previously unseen structure in our galaxy

Fastest star in our galaxy propelled by a thermonuclear supernova

Astronomers discover dizzying spin of the Milky Way galaxy's 'halo'

NASA's Chandra shows Milky Way is surrounded by halo of hot gas

Computer simulations shed light on the Milky Way missing red giants

Milky Way a swifter spinner, more massive, new measurements show

A stellar stream in the Milky Way provides evidence of dark substructure

The Gaia sausage: the major collision that changed the Milky Way Galaxy

New hypervelocity binary star challenges dark matter, stellar acceleration models

Gases in the Milky Way are not homogeneously mixed, contrary to previous models

Astronomers may have solved the mysery of the bubbles towering over the Milky Way

Self-teaching neural networks help find mysterious stars tearing through the Milky Way

Astrobiologists discover 'sweet spots' for the formation of complex organic molecules in the galaxy   

At the centre of the Milky Way:

In this galaxy far, far away

The Milky Way's ancient heart

The tumultuous heart of our galaxy

The galaxy's core is about to explode

The Milky Way's central molecular zone 

"Vampire" stars found in heart of our galaxy 

High energy trap in our galaxy's center revealed

Milky Way's center unveils supernova 'dust factory'

Signs of second largest black hole in the Milky Way

The turbulent past of the black hole in the Milky Way

Milky Way core drives wind at 2 mllion miles per hour 

Ghostly gamma-ray beams blast from Milky Way's center

Lifting the veil on the black hole at the heart of our galaxy

Black hole at galaxy's heart launches planet-size 'spitballs'

Puzzle about bizarre object at the center of our galaxy solved

Stars forming just beyond black hole’s grasp at galactic center

Chandra helps confirm evidence of jet in Milky Way's black hole

NASA's Chandra finds Milky Way's black hole grazing on asteroids

Canada's Largest Computer Simulation Peers into Milky Way's Center

MeerKAT peers into the centre of the Milky Way galaxy for the first time

Newly found pulsar helps astronpmers explore Milky Way's mysterious core

Discovering magnetized inflow accreting to the center of the Milky Way galaxy

The Milky Way's supermassive black hole may have a dozen nomadic siblings

Giant X-ray 'chimneys' are exhaust vents for vast energies produced at Milky Way's center

A better way to simulate accretion of the supermassiv black hole at the center of the Milky Way

Astronomers unveil strong magnetic fields spiraling at the edge of Milk Way's central black hole

A source accelerating galactic cosmic rays to unprecedented energy discovered at the centre of Milky Way

Maps of the Milky Way:

Milky Way Explorer 

A map of the Milky Way

Milky Way in 46m pixels

The far side of the Milky Way

Night Sky Atlas of the Milky Way

X-ray chimneys in the Milky Way

You are not where you think you are

An Atlas of the Milky Way (Max Planck)

First age map of the halo of the Milky Way

Charting the Milky Way from the inside out

The Milky Way Atlas (Hayden Planetarium)

ATLASGAL survey of the Milky Way completed 

New Milky Way map is a spectacular billion-star atlas

3D visualization redefines Milky Way's local architecture

New 3D map will help solve long-standing cosmic mysteries

Astronomers unveil most complete 3-D map of Local Universe

New 3D map of the Milky Way reveals a warped, twisted shape       

Scientists Chart High-Precision Map of Milky Way's Magnetic Fields    

Neighbourhood galaxies and voids to the Milky Way:

List of Milky Way's satellite galaxies

Distance to nearest galaxy measured

GAIA spots a 'ghost' galaxy next door 

Hubble finds relic galaxy close to home

Milky Way's neighbors pick up the pace

A detailed video map of the nearby Universe

A bridge of stars connects two dwarf galaxies

Interactive visualization of our stellar neighborhood

Earth's Milky Way neighborhood gets more respect

Milky Way orbitting dwarf galaxies crashed in the past

Proxima Centauri may be more sunlike than we thought

Astronomers map vast void in our cosmic neighborhood

Massive outburst in neighboring galaxy surprises astronomers

Newly identified galactic supercluster is home to the Milky Way

Ripples in galaxy help locate dark matter satellites of Milky Way 

The Milky Way kidnapped several tiny galaxies from its neighbor

MIlky Way is on the outskirts of 'immeasurable heaven' supercluster

We're way below average! Astronomers say Milky Way resides in a great cosmic void

The VPOS: a vast polar structure of satellite galaxies, globular clusters and streams around the Milky Way  

The Andromeda Galaxy:

Cool, new views of Andromeda galaxy

The violent history of the big galay next door

Greedy black hole discovered in Andromeda

Andromeda's bright X-ray mystery solved by NuSTAR

Astronomers detect extreme flare from Proxima Centauri

Hubble finds massive halo around the Andromeda galaxy

Andromeda galaxy scanned with high-energy X-ray vision

Neighboring Andromeda galaxy to eat Milky Way in 5 billion years

Study of Andromeda's stellar disk indicates more violent history than Milky Way

Surprise pancake stucture in Andromeda galaxy upends galactic understanding

Collision history of the Milky Way:  

The galactic mosh pit

Our galaxy takes its food pills

Stellar patrons of the Milky Way Bar

Gaia hints at our Galaxy's turbulent life

Milky Way sidelined in galactic tug of war 

Giant gas cloud boomeranging back into Milky Way 

Massive cloud on collision course with the Milky Way

Milky Way ransacks nearby dwarf galaxies, stripping all traces of star-forming gas    

New evidence shows crash with Antlia 2 gave the Milky Way the ripples its ripples in its outer disc

Stars ejected from the Milky Way:   

Hyperfast Star Was Booted From Milky Way 

Why is this wierd, metallic star hurtling out of the Milky Way? 

Rogue star ejected from the galaxy found in intergalactic space

Alpha Centauri - closest star to the Sun:

A cool discovery about the Sun's next-door twin

340,000 stars interrogated in search for Sun's siblings

Earth's place in the universe amongst 'Council of Giants' 

Closest Earth-size planet may get robot visitors - here's how