The Milky Way may not have a sharp edge, but scientists have now found where its star-forming activity largely comes to an ...

How far the Milky Way's disk extends has long been difficult to define—it doesn't end sharply, but fades away gradually at ...

The older stars migrated out from the galactic center, leaving the younger ones inside.

Planets may actually form more easily around double stars than around single stars like our sun, according to new research ...

Astronomers have discovered the edge of the Milky Way’s star-forming disk, revealing that most new stars form within 40,000 ...

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By peering deep inside Orion's star-forming gas clouds, radio astronomers have been able to directly measure the masses of ...

An international team has mapped the Milky Way’s star-forming boundary at about 35,000 to 40,000 light-years from its center using stellar age measurements and galaxy simulations. The work revealed a ...

The ring produced by MC 27. An artist’s rendering of the molecular cloud core MC 27 based on observations from the ALMA telescope. The protostar and the disk surrounding it are shown in the lower ...

How far the Milky Way's disc extends has long been difficult to define — it doesn't end sharply, but fades away gradually at its outer edges. Now, for the first time, an international team of ...

Astronomers have identified the outer boundary of the star-forming region in the Milky Way. By analysing the ages of stars ...