October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... power of the Dark Side”, says Darth Vader, arguably the galaxy’s most imposing dictator, and he’s right. There’s a Dark ...the hope of sending money home and seeing a bit of the galaxy. Sound familiar? However, all these civilians were - spoiler alert...
16 November 2015
Largest, most detailed image of space created by German astronomers.
..., created by Chini's team, enables viewers to fully explore the galaxy by using a powerful zoom to showcase various parts of the Milky...decade of research, and combines 268 views of the galaxy captured nightly by telescopes in the Atacama Desert (Chile...
30 July 2018
Test of Einstein’s general relativity theory successful after 26 years
...is surrounded by a group of stars orbiting it at high speed. The resulting gravitational field, the strongest in the Milky Way galaxy, creates the ideal environment for testing Einstein's general theory of relativity. One of these stars, S2, was less...
07 June 2019
First-ever image of cool gas disk surrounding Milky Way's black hole
...the monster-material eating machine at the heart of the galaxy is still not determined, but researchers have been able to...flowing around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. The colors represent the motion of the gas relative to ...
29 May 2020
Cosmic bursts solve Universe's 'missing matter' problem
... consisted of a hot and tenuous filamentary gas between galaxies could be the potential hiding place of the missing ... relative ease and then pinpoint locations to their host galaxies with incredible precision,” says Associate Professor Ryan Shannon, ...
07 September 2020
A new study helps narrow the search for intelligent life
...constrain the prevalence of extra-terrestrial intelligence in our own galaxy and beyond,” says Team leader Mike Garrett. The ...for finding advanced life on the outer fringes of the galaxy. “Inhabited worlds with much more powerful transmitters than we ...
