Milky Way Galaxy dimensions: 100k ly x 2k ly, containing 2 x 1011 stars
Structure and Evolution of Galaxies, at Barnes and Noble
Science Daily
BBC: Hubble snaps stunning spiral galaxy NGC 4414
CNN - Two supermassive star clouds found in Milky Way center - 16/09/99
Dance of the galaxies - 05/11/99
X-rays mark galactic collision - 17/11/99
Sombrero Galaxy stuns astronomers - 29/02/00
Red light for exploding galaxy - 27/03/00
Hubble image sheds light on darkness within galaxies - 11/05/00
Astronomers make the Milky Way vanish - 24/05/00
Sweet secret of life in the stars - 17/06/00 A simple sugar molecule is found in a cloud of dust and gas near the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way
Chandra celebrates 1st birthday with galactic 'superbubbles' [in Corvus] - 17/08/00
Galaxies older than previously thought - 18/08/00
Scientists look into Milky Way core - 20/09/00 Sagittarius A* is located at the exact point around which our galaxy revolves
Astronomers pinpoint black hole at center of Milky Way - 21/09/00
On-off flashes excite astronomers - 29/09/00
Heart of the Milky Way - 17/10/00
Hubble Solves Cosmic Mystery - 27/10/00
Hubble spies colliding galaxies - 03/11/00 NGC 6745
Galactic mystery: Solving a universal puzzle - 30/11/00
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Black hole takes 'light snack' - 01/12/00
Huge galaxy grouping spied - 09/01/01
Hubble spots 'pipeline' between rowdy galactic neighbors - 11/01/01
Spiral galaxy stays young at heart - 04/06/01
Astronomers get six-way vision - 30/08/01 gravitational lens
Telescope snaps 'perfect spiral' - 02/10/01 NGC 628 (Messier 74)
Hubble peers at core of globular cluster - 04/10/01 Omega Centauri
Telescopes detect tiny, very distant galaxy - 05/10/01
Goofy galaxy spins in wrong direction - 08/02/02
Cosmic ray mystery 'solved' - 23/04/02
Galaxy 'may cause ice ages' - 31/07/02
Galactic collision leaves glowing scar - 25/10/02
Distant galaxies break record - 13/12/02 Astronomers using a VLT have obtained the deepest near-infrared image of the sky ever
Hubble watches galactic dance - 16/12/02 Seyfert's Sextet
Ring of stars circling the Milky Way - 06/02/03
Hubble's deep view shows cosmic violence - 08/05/03
Universe's smallest galaxies discovered - 28/05/03
Puzzle of empty galaxies - 15/07/03
Astronomers see 'cosmic camp fire' - 01/08/03
Nearest Milky Way companion found - 04/11/03
Galactic impact makes black holes - 09/12/03
Secrets of the 'Evil Eye' galaxy - 05/02/04 M64
Telescope probes far off galaxy - 02/03/04
Hubble sees glowing ring of fire - 22/04/04
Big discovery redraws map of the Milky Way - 05/05/04
Milky Way spiral gets an extra arm - 09/05/04
Hubble sights Milky Way's 'twin' - 09/08/04
Stars reveal the Milky Way's age - 17/08/04
Astronomers capture galactic dance - 13/09/04 photo
Hubble spots 'youngest galaxy' - 07/12/04
Astronomers find star-less galaxy - 23/02/05
Galaxy has mystery star clusters - 05/04/05
Galactic pancake mystery solved - 07/04/05
Cosmic particle accelerator seen - 08/04/05
Fossil galaxies 'eat neighbours' - 08/04/05
Cosmic 'traffic pile-ups' probed - 08/04/05
The bar at the center of the galaxy - 16/08/05
Telescope views death of galaxy - 30/08/05
Spiral arm of Milky Way looms closer than thought - 08/12/05 the Perseus arm is just 6400 light years from Earth, calculated using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the parallax method
Missing: One million stars (give or take) - 14/02/06 Messier 12 is located about 23,000 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. It is one of about 200 known globular clusters in the Milky Way. The number of stars in a cluster can range from 10,000 to more than a million
Hubble pictures Pinwheel Galaxy in all its glory - 28/02/06 M101 is 170,000 light years across – nearly twice the size of the Milky Way – and takes up an area of the sky equivalent to one-fifth the size of a full Moon. It lies about 25 million light years from Earth – about 10 times as far as our nearest large neighbour, the Andromeda galaxy
Galaxy cluster’s maturity surprises scientists - 08/06/06
Astronomers peer at distant epoch - 14/09/06
Vast halo extends galaxy's size - 08/01/07
Tiny galaxy hosts huge black hole - 09/01/07
Magellanic Clouds 'just passing' - 10/01/07
Light is shed on darkest galaxies - 15/02/07
Scientists seek galaxy hunt help - 11/07/07
Astronomers claim galaxy record - 11/07/07 They have pictures of what appear to be very faint galaxies that shone more than 13 billion years ago, a mere 500 million years after the Big Bang
Galaxies clash in four-way merger - 06/08/07
Black hole 'bully' blasts galaxy - 17/12/07 The event is occurring in a system called 3C321, which lies 1.4 billion light-years from Earth. It contains two galaxies in orbit around one another which are in the process of merging
Spiral galaxy winds backwards - 10/01/08 NGC4622
Perfectly Aligned Galaxies Found For the First Time - 11/01/08
Huge gas cloud will hit Milky Way - 12/01/08
Double bullseye for Einstein - 11/01/08 The gravitational-lens system known as SDSSJ0946+1006 includes a bright foreground galaxy at center, the ringlike image of a middle galaxy 6 billion light-years away, and the dimmer ring of another galaxy 11 billion light-years away
