Our Milky Way galaxy has something known as the galactic bar that's made up of billions of clustered stars. Scientists say that the galactic bar has reduced the rate of its spinning by about 25 ...

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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found a barred spiral galaxy that formed when the universe was only two billion years old ...

Astronomers have detected a previously unknown giant molecular cloud (GMC) at the midpoint of the Galactic Bar Dust Lanes using spectral line observations taken with the Green Bank Telescope (GBT).

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...

Sometime between 8 and 11 billion years ago, the Milky Way crashed into a dwarf galaxy that astronomers call the Gaia Sausage. You will not see the Gaia Sausage today. As far as astronomers know, its ...

The spin of the Milky Way’s galactic bar, which is made up of billions of clustered stars, has slowed by about a quarter since its formation, according to a new study by researchers at University ...