Temporal Distortion
What you see is real, but you can’t see it this way with the naked eye. It is the result of thousands of 20-30 second exposures, edited together to produce the timelapse.
Milky Way viewed from Reunion Island
This photo above shows the Milky Way as observed from Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean on the night of November 3, 2011. Photographer: Luc Perrot; Luc’s Web site
Milky Way’s Black Hole grazing on Asteroids
The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be vaporizing and devouring asteroids, which could explain the frequent flares observed, according to astronomers using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/F. Baganoff et al.; Illustrations: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
NightScapes by Royce Bair
Those breathtaking night sky photos of the our Milky Way with landscapes in the foreground, are from the beautiful set “NightScapes”. Utah-based photographer Royce Bair use his experience for over 30 years now, to take these enhanced landscapes against a twilight sky.
Billions of habitable planets in Milky Way
This artist’s illustration gives an impression of how common planets are around the stars in a region of the Milky Way. The viewer is able to see the planets orbiting the stars and is based off scientific data over the past six years. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Kornmesser (ESO)
Fastest Rotating Star found
This artist’s concept pictures the fastest rotating star found to date. The massive, bright young star, called VFTS 102, rotates at a million miles per hour, or 100 times faster than our sun does.
Dark Matter is now more mysterious
Like all galaxies, our Milky Way is home to a strange substance called dark matter. Dark matter is invisible, betraying its presence only through its gravitational pull. Without dark matter holding them together, our galaxy’s speedy stars would fly off in all directions. The nature of dark matter is a mystery — a mystery that a new study has only deepened.
Flaming Phoenix under the Milky Way
A photo of clouds that look like a flaming Phoenix together with the Milky Way on September 24, 2011, in a place called ‘El Cerro del Hierro’ (The iron hill), an old iron mine located at the north of Seville, Spain. Photographer Felipe Gallego. via universetoday
Aliens… where are they?
New signs point to a billion planets in our own galaxy where extra-terrestrials might be hiding. The analysis of the first 136 days of results from NASA’s Kepler telescope – launched with the aim to ‘search for habitable planets’ – has ignited furious debate over the idea of intelligent life in space.
First simulation of Milky Way-like Galaxy
After nine months of number-crunching on a powerful supercomputer, a beautiful spiral galaxy matching our own Milky Way emerged from a computer simulation of the physics involved in galaxy formation and evolution.
