A distant galaxy that looks ‘surprisingly like our Milky Way’, has been discovered by astronomers, who say it appears like a near-perfect ring of light in space. Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute used the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to find the galaxy 12 billion light years away. The galaxy … Read more
An image of a spectacular butterfly-shaped bubble of gas in the Milky Way has been captured by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescope. The striking planetary nebula, known as NGC 2899, appears to float and flutter across the sky in this pristine image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. A planetary nebula is created … Read more
The source of a mysterious ‘fast radio burst’ in space has been traced back to a dead star in the middle of the Milky Way. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly from space, ranging from a fraction of a millisecond to a few milliseconds. The space telescope Integral, … Read more
Scientists have found the remnant of a strange, dismembered globular cluster at the edge of our Milky Way galaxy, in the Phoenix constellation. Globular clusters are dense balls of about one million ancient stars, all bound by gravity, at the outermost edge of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Using the Anglo-Australian Telescope in the outback … Read more
White Dwarfs, the dead remnants of a Sun-like star, are responsible for most of the carbon in the Milky Way – the element essential for life as we know it, a study found. Astronomers from the US and UK including the University of Warwick, studied star clusters throughout the Milky Way to track down the … Read more
A white dwarf star has been spotted hurtling through the Milky Way at 560,000 miles per hour thanks to a thermonuclear blast from a ‘partial supernova’, study found. Astronomers from the University of Warwick used observations from the Hubble Space Telescope to find out what sent the white dwarf on its journey. The white dwarf has … Read more
A red glow at the centre of the Milky Way has been detected for the first time and it could help astronomers discover what powers the centre of our spiral galaxy. The red light shines out of an area known as the ‘Tilted Disk’ – named for its orientation – that sits in the central … Read more
Chocolate fans go wild after Milky Way Crispy Rolls are added to boxes of Celebrations – and insist it’s ‘proof 2020 is finally on the up’ Eagle-eyed chocoholics spotted the extra edition in certain Celebration boxes Eager shoppers found them in B&M and rushed to Twitter to share the news It appears Milky Way Crispy Rolls … Read more
An annual Milky Way photography competition has unveiled 25 spectacular images showing off our galaxy in incredible rarely-seen detail. The stunning photographs, released by travel photography blog Capture The Atlas, show the stars beautifully framing trees, tents and even a monastery. The astonishing shots have been nominated for the website’s annual Milky Way photographer of the … Read more
Big Brother star Angela Clancy finally reveals why she makes her tea so milky – after shocking fans by using a teabag that had fallen in the toilet By Chloe-lee Longhetti For Daily Mail Australia Published: 04:21 BST, 17 June 2020 | Updated: 04:54 BST, 17 June 2020 She’s the Big Brother favourite known for … Read more