Our Milky Way is a frugal galaxy. Supernovas and violent stellar winds blow gas out of the galactic disk, but that gas falls back onto the galaxy to form new generations of stars.
Milky Way Raids Intergalactic 'Bank Accounts,' Hubble Study Finds
articles
MIT Alumna Addresses the World’s Mounting Plastic Waste Problem
It’s been nearly 10 years since Priyanka Bakaya MBA ’11 founded Renewlogy to develop a system that converts plastic waste into fuel.
The Milky Way Kidnapped Several Tiny Galaxies from Its Neighbor
Just like the moon orbits the Earth, and the Earth orbits the sun, galaxies orbit each other according to the predictions of cosmology.
New Aerial Photographs Shed Light on Dark Days for Mont Blanc
In 1919, the Swiss pilot and photographer Walter Mittelholzer flew over Mont Blanc in a biplane photographing the alpine landscape.
Sharing Data for Improved Forest Protection and Monitoring
Although the mapping of aboveground biomass is now possible with satellite remote sensing, these maps still have to be calibrated and validated using on-site data gathered by researchers across the world.
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP Satellite Needed 3 Orbits to See All of Super Typhoon Hagibis
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with a composite visible image of the very large Super Typhoon Hagibis in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean on Oct. 10.
