"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The universe seems to like spirals!" ...
Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...
A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...
10d
New Scientist on MSNThe solar system was once engulfed by a vast wave of gas and dustThe stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...
A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...
6d
ExplorersWeb on MSNSpace Mystery of the Week: Why Does Our Solar System Like Spirals?Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.
19d
Interesting Engineering on MSNNASA supercomputer finds Milky Way-like spiral at solar system’s edgeThe inner Oort cloud, between 1,000 and 10,000 AU from the sun, displays a spiral formation with arms that extend 15,000 AU.
Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...
The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results