The story behind the discovery of cosmic microwave background

As we saw in the previous article, Laplace's nebular theory gradually fell out of favour with the astronomy community. By the start of...

The formation of our solar system is one of the big questions that astronomy has tried to answer, up there with the origin of the...

Have you ever wondered at what speed our Sun moves in the Milky Way? Or, what speed would be required by a star to escape the...

Milky Way is studied by classifying it's structure into main components depending on the distribution of stars, gas and dust.

Through the Baade's Window, the view is that of the innermost region of Milky Way - the Sagittarius A system.

The age-metallicity relation connecting the age of stars to their metallic abundances is useful in understanding the evolution of Milky Way.

Age-Metallicity relation makes use of the connection between the age of the stars and their metal content to understand galactic evolution.