Research findings are available online in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. The original story “ For the first time, ...
The Milky Way may not have a sharp edge, but scientists have now found where its star-forming activity largely comes to an ...
How far the Milky Way's disk extends has long been difficult to define—it doesn't end sharply, but fades away gradually at ...
The older stars migrated out from the galactic center, leaving the younger ones inside.
European astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe ...
What specific processes are responsible for planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of ...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found a young star surrounded by an astonishing mass of gas. The star, called 49 Ceti, is 40 million years old and ...
When a star passes too close to a supermassive black hole, tidal forces tear it apart, producing a bright flare of radiation as material from the star falls into the black hole. Astronomers study the ...
How far the Milky Way's disc extends has long been difficult to define — it doesn't end sharply, but fades away gradually at its outer edges. Now, for the first time, an international team of ...