The Milky Way Was Rewired by a Cataclysmic Collision Billions of Years Ago. Now It Is on Course for Another

The Milky Way was rewired by a cataclysmic collision billions of years ago. Now it is on course for another

Composite image of the centre of the Milky Way, created by the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Nasa/JPL-Caltech/Esa via Wikimedia CommonsVasily Belokurov is one of three winners of the 2026 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics. The award is for uncovering fossil evidence of past galactic mergers that prove how the Milky Way evolved. No matter the time or vantage point, from a pre-Neolithic cave to a post-lockdown Lo…

The Milky Way's star-forming edge may be closer than we thought

Astronomers have uncovered a surprising twist in the Milky Way's story.Continue ReadingCategory: Astronomy, ScienceTags: milky way, Stars, Astrophysics