Our solar system exists in one of the Milky Way's smaller spiral arms — the Orion-Cygnus arm — which radiates out from the center of the galaxy. While we can use our vantage point to view ...

NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy ...

Earth is not alone, and a stunning new animation created ... a cross-cut view of the Milky Way; it looks this way because our solar system drifts within the spiral galaxy. Each circle that appears ...

The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy ... as well as the Galaxy’s central bulge and its satellite galaxies. As filming extended over several months, objects from the Solar System came and went ...

the solar system and galaxies. This clip helps to reinforce the meaning of a galaxy, using the Milky Way as an example. Many students will have preconceptions about what dark matter is ...

Our solar system is located in a spiral arm – a long, thin region of stars, gas and dust that extends from the centre of a spiral galaxy – on the Milky Way’s galaxy disc, about halfway from ...