Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Alien: The Roleplaying Game is a science fiction horror role-playing game published by Free League Publishing in 2019 that is based on the Alien film franchise.
Ursa Major III (UMa III) is a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, the smallest and faintest ever discovered.
The center of the Milky Way is home to phenomena that humans don't yet understand, but using the latest science experts are revealing how the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's core shapes life on Earth.
The new image of the glowing red hand-like feature showcases CG 4, one of many cometary globules found across the Milky Way galaxy.
Map of stars cataloged by the Gaia release in 2021, displayed as density mesh in the diagram. The ESA spacecraft Gaia provides distance estimates by determining the parallax of a billion stars and is mapping the Milky Way with four planned releases of maps in 2016, 2018, 2021 and 2024.
In astronomy, the Great Rift (sometimes called the Dark Rift or less commonly the Dark River) is a dark band caused by interstellar clouds of cosmic dust that significantly obscure ( extinguish) the center and most radial sectors of the Milky Way galaxy from Earth 's perspective.
A new, incredibly detailed 3D map of the Milky Way has revealed that its central disk is wavy, much like an enormous potato chip.This new picture of the galactic disk — the central region of the ...
File:Milky-way-edge-on.pdf. Size of this JPG preview of this PDF file: 800 × 590 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 236 pixels | 640 × 472 pixels | 943 × 695 pixels. This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.
The Milky Way creates a Zone of Avoidance for local observers. The Zone of Avoidance (ZOA, ZoA), or Zone of Galactic Obscuration (ZGO), is the area of the sky that is obscured by the Milky Way.
In July 2019, astronomers reported finding a star, S5-HVS1, traveling 1,755 km/s (3.93 million mph) or 0.006 c. The star is in the Grus (or Crane) constellation in the southern sky, and about 29,000 light-years from Earth, and may have been propelled out of the Milky Way galaxy after interacting with Sagittarius A*.