From Youtube, "The night sky seems peaceful and orderly. But in reality, stars are careening through the galaxy at speeds of hundreds of thousands of kilometers per hour. Not bound by static formations... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 1 year 5 months 2 weeks ago • 326 views • 9:46

From Youtube, "The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 billion billion stars surround our... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 1 year 9 months 2 weeks ago • 211 views • 11:41

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration observed the supermassive black holes at the center of M87 and our Milky Way galaxy (SgrA*) finding the dark central shadow in accordance with General Relativity,... continue reading

posted by eric3579 3 years 1 month ago • 331 views • 5:24

Via YouTube: The Gaia space observatory released a detailed 3d map of the Milky Way, and scientists have to figure out why Charon's north pole is red!

posted by Gratefulmom 5 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 21 views • 4:21

YouTube: Sometimes galaxies eat each other! It's actually pretty common. And it turns out that our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is pretty hungry.

posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 3 months 1 week ago • 79 views • 5:12

Published on Sep 3, 2014 Superclusters – regions of space that are densely packed with galaxies – are the biggest structures in the Universe. But scientists have struggled to define exactly where... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 1,297 views • 4:11

From YT: A galaxy dubbed NGC 6744 is being hailed at the Milky Way's galactic twin... Find out why?

posted by Skeeve 1 decade 10 months 3 weeks ago • 1,263 views • 5:20