The streams of stars are so old that they likely formed before even the spiral arms or extended disk of the Milky Way began ...

Its job is to analyse the composition of stars and gas both in the Milky Way and in distant galaxies. WEAVE is part of the William Herschel Telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on ...

Now imagine doing that on a cosmic scale." A mysterious, one-off flash of energy from an unknown object outside the Milky Way has left astronomers puzzled. The research team, led by Steven ...

A mysterious, one-off flash of energy from an unknown object outside the Milky Way has left astronomers ... a likelihood that scientists hope to soon weave out with future telescope observations.