... Travel to the center of the MilkyWay, witness the births and deaths of stars, the creation of planets, and the crushing forces ... that are members of the local group and of the structure of the interstellar medium in the MilkyWay and other galaxies ...
... HOST: During Apollo 16, I recall that astronauts used a far-ultraviolet telescope to observe objects like the MilkyWay, galactic clusters, and Earth's atmosphere. ...
... There is evidence that these supermassive black holes exist in many galaxies, including our own MilkyWay, and our nearest neighbor galaxy, the Andromeda galaxy (also known as M31). ...
... Halley's Comet in 1986, crossing the MilkyWay (from NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory) President of the ASP from 1983 to 1985 and received the Society's Klumpke-Roberts Award for a lifetime of contributions to popularizing astronomy in 1993. ...
... Bok was Director at several major observatories and made important research contributions to our understanding of the MilkyWay and of star formation. ...
... Faber and collaborators discovered "The Great Attractor," a localized concentration of mass toward which the MilkyWay and neighboring galaxies are being pulled, and conducted ground-breaking research on super-massive black holes in the centers of nearly ...