The Milky Way is known to have two main spiral arms, the Perseus arm and the Scutum-Centaurus arm. Our galaxy also possesses two less pronounced arms, or spurs, called the Sagittarius and the ...

Astronomers have used the youngest objects in the Milky Way to build a new map of the galaxy's spiral arms, and the results are far messier than expected.

"The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," according to the Capture the Atlas ...

Two Of The Milky Way's Spiral Arms Go Missing Date: June 3, 2008 Source: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory Summary: For decades, astronomers have been blind to what our galaxy, the Milky Way, really ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

The spiral arms began to emerge about two billion years ago, when the Sagittarius galaxy first collided with the Milky Way disk. Credit: Tollerud, Purcell and Bullock/UC Irvine IRVINE — UC Irvine ...

Astronomers have shown how the Milky Way galaxy's iconic spiral arms form, according to new research. A dwarf galaxy named Sagittarius loaded with dark matter has careened twice through our much ...

Our home in the universe It’s tricky to map an entire galaxy when you live in one of its arms. But astronomers have made the clearest map yet of the Milky Way – and it turns out that the arm ...

Our Milky Way galaxy has four arms instead of two, according to just published results of a 12-year study by scientists in the U.K.. The findings, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

While most models of the Milky Way suggest that the Sagittarius Arm forms a spiral with a pitch angle of about 12 degrees, the structure examined in the current research stood out at an angle of ...

St. Louis, Mo. — For decades, astronomers have been blind to what our galaxy, the Milky Way, really looks like. After all, we sit in the midst of it and can’t step outside for a bird’s eye view.