Astronomers have determined that the Milky Way's outer halo is filled with "magnetic donuts" that are as wide as 100,000 light-years. The discovery could shed light on how cosmic magnetic fields ...

Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way’s stellar halo. The most distant of these stars is more than a million light years from Earth, ...

The Milky Way's halo is a large, hot cloud of gas surrounding the galaxy (shown in blue), which astronomers have found spins in the same direction and at almost the same speed as the galaxy itself.

The Milky Way, just like most disk and elliptical galaxies, is surrounded by what's known as a "circumgalactic medium" or a halo of hot gas. Our nearby neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, also has ...

A recent discovery of a magnetic halo surrounding the Milky Way galaxy could significantly alter our understanding of galactic evolution. Researchers from the National Institute for Astrophysics ...

The halo that surrounds our own Milky Way galaxy is much hotter than scientists once believed—and it may not be unique among galaxies. The new findings were presented at the annual meeting of ...

Milky Way: Hydrogen halo lifts the veil of our galactic home Astronomers find missing mass in the hydrogen halo that surrounds our home galaxy Date: April 18, 2017 Source: University of Arizona ...

The team spotted the stars in the Milky Way's "halo"—the cloud of stars that envelopes the entire main galactic disk. Based on the team's analysis, the three stars formed between 12 and 13 ...

The Milky Way galaxy has a clumpy halo. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 7, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 10 / 201019112108.htm. University of Iowa.

A new study has pinned down the age of the Milky Way's outer reaches with unprecedented precision, shedding light on how our galaxy and others across the universe came to be. IE 11 is not supported.

The Milky Way could be flinging stars into its outer halo – a movement triggered by powerful supernova explosions. Supernovas occur when stars explode and lose most of their mass.

The halo of dark matter that is thought to surround the Milky Way appears to be shaped like a squashed beach ball, astronomers have found.