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Our Galaxy is shooting out bullets of cold gas

The central regions of disk galaxies are large-scale powerhouses. Galactic nuclei usually host super-massive black holes that release huge amounts of energy when matter spirals around them and eventually falls onto them. Many galaxies also show strong star formation activity in their inner regions, with... click to read more

Enrico Di Teodoro | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Lucia Armillotta | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Milky Way

galactic centre

Fermi bubbles

gas outflow

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Nov 23, 2021

A peculiar bright burst of radio waves in the Milky Way

What's out there? It's a fundamental but fascinating question in space science. Back in 1969, we managed to first travel to our neighbour, the Moon, and explore it. However, the whole picture is much more complex as most objects in the Universe are too far... click to read more

Simone Bavera | PhD Student at Departement of Astronomy, University of Geneva, Versoix, Switzerland

galaxies

neutron stars

Milky Way

fast radio burst

magnetar

Reading time 3 min

published on Jun 23, 2021

The stars that time forgot remember the youth of our Milky Way

How did galaxies, like our own Milky Way, arise from the featureless universe after the Big Bang? Through a lot of astronomical detective work, we now know that galaxies expand through consuming smaller systems, tearing them apart through their gravitational forces and assimilating their stars.... click to read more

Geraint F. Lewis | Professor at Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

evolution

galaxy evolution

Cosmology

Globular Clusters

Milky Way

Reading time 4 min

published on Mar 12, 2021