The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed an unexpected difference between the powerful winds launching from a disk around a neutron star and those from material circling ...
Using the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), an international team of astronomers has discovered a ...
Figure 1: Locations of the observed stars in Galactocentric Cartesian coordinates. The similarity of abundances suggests that the TriAnd and A13 stars have a common origin. However, having their ...
While analysing the complex structure of the Milky Way, an international team of astronomers from Italy and the United Kingdom has recently derived the shape of the Galactic outer stellar disc, and ...
Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk galaxies from up to 11 billion years ago. Just like artifacts excavated ...
Disk galaxies, like our own Milky Way galaxy, commonly consist of both a thick and thin disk of stars—each with different features, including stellar population and movement. Three major theoretical ...