Researchers upend theory about the formation of the Milky Way

milky way galaxy  Zoom into the Hubble Space Telescope view of the Milky Way's dense galactic core Hubble's near-infrared vision pierced the dusty heart of the Our Milky Way is a spiral galaxy Just a portion of it, seen in radio waves, shows the telltale bubbles, nuggets, and streams caused by the births and deaths of

The Milky Way galaxy is our cosmic home sweet home It's the massive bunch of stars, gas and dust where Earth orbits the sun  These stars, gas, and dust revolve around the flat central plane and bulge of the Galaxy When the gas clouds enter a spiral arm, they can bump

The term 'Milky Way', once used simply to refer to the misty arch of stars in the night sky, was later adopted as the name for our Galaxy as a whole In the Zoom into the Hubble Space Telescope view of the Milky Way's dense galactic core Hubble's near-infrared vision pierced the dusty heart of the