We knew there was a supermassive black hole in the middle of our very own Milky Way. Now we have images of how this gigantic monster eats. This video shows it devouring a massive, newly-discovered gas cloud. More »
Astrophysicists from the University of Zurich working with UCSC’s astronomers have created the world’s first realistic simulation of the formation of the Milky Way. It’s amazing that all this clockwork perfection came out of such a galactic Charlie Foxtrot. More »
Good morning indeed! We know Randy Halverson pretty well for his wonderful milky way time lapses. Here’s another, taken out in South Dakota and set to a beautiful score. More »
The Milky Way, old news. But what the hell is this scene? A row of stone pyramids in middle-of-nowhere Nevada. Abandoned. And they’ve been derelict for over a century. More »
The Milky Way is huge compared to our sun, just one more speck of dust of the 400 billion stars in it. But, at 100,000 light years across, it’s tiny compared to other galaxies in the universe. More »
Certainly, Norwegian photographer Terje Sorgjerd has a talent for capturing the awe-inspiring. Taken on El Teide in the Canary Islands, this time lapse captures the Milky Way galaxy overhead as sand wafts across the landscape as gold clouds. [The Awesomer]
