Tag: galaxy
Astronomers are hyped after finding that there may up to nine dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way Galaxy. A dwarf galaxy, the smallest type of galaxy, is a cluster of at least 5,000 stars. Though scientists predict that there are a lot of dwarf galaxies around our own massive galaxy, they are notoriously hard to […]
An international team of scientists have observed, for the first time ever, what they think is a multistar system in very early stages of formation. The implications of the findings, published in Nature, may help researchers understand why some star systems have only one star (like ours), and other have two or more stars. ETH […]