Take a good, hard look at the Milky Way Galaxy in the image above - eventually, this view will be completely destroyed by a collision of galactic proportions. Earth itself will survive ...
The result is an unprecedented large-scale 3D map of the galaxy. And that map shows that the edges of the Milky way bend slightly ... bright the star looks from Earth. The pulsation patterns ...
A new view of the Milky Way: Warped and twisted Our galaxy, the Milky Way ... The new three dimensional map has been published in the journal Science. The popular picture of the Milky Way as ...
A giant elliptical galaxy formed after the merger of the Milky Way and Andromeda, as hypothetically seen from Earth. Credit: NASA These changes in the sky, of course, wouldn't be rapid.
Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space — so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor ...