MilkyWay at Home

05/08/2023

RPI is conducting their annual CII power maintenance between May 8th and May 10th. As a precaution, we will need to shutdown the server during this time.
We will have the server back up and running as soon as possible.

02/22/2022

Hey Volunteers,

The server is currently down for maintenance. It will probably be down at least through the rest of the day. We hope to be back to normal service in a day or two.

Thanks for the patience!

02/17/2022

With the help of tens of thousands of volunteers from around the world, we've been able to reconstruct a dwarf galaxy that left a stream of stars in the night sky! This object was ripped apart billions of years ago by the Milky Way.

Learn more here:

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02/17/2022

We have measured the original shape and mass of the dwarf galaxy that was ripped apart to make the Orphan-Chenab Stream!

Professor Heidi Jo Newberg has made a video explaining the Orphan-Chenab progenitor result:
14 minutes: https://youtu.be/ma44b8-SLcA

Or, for more information, there is a longer, 24 minute version: https://youtu.be/eATUWTwdOgc

The paper is out today: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac498a

Thank you to all of the MW@home volunteers, who make it possible for us to locate dark matter in the Milky Way!!!!

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06/23/2021

The MilkyWay@home website is currently down. We believe this is an RPI network issue, not a problem with MilkyWay@home. We will update you as soon as the problem is resolved or we know more.

Thanks for all the help and your continued patience!

05/18/2021

MilkyWay is back up and running! We apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you to all our volunteers for your patience.

For more information, please check the MilkyWay@home website here:

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05/10/2021

MilkyWay@home is expected to remain down for the next couple days. We do not have a timeline on when the RPI network issues will be resolved. We will let you all know as soon as we find out more about the situation. Thank you again for your patience!

05/07/2021

MilkyWay@home is currently down due to network issues at RPI. As soon as we know more about the situation, we will let you know. Thank you volunteers for your patience and for all of the work you do for this project.

03/31/2021

Did you know that our Milky Way Galaxy has shells? These were formed from a head-on collision between the Milky Way and another galaxy roughly 3 billion years ago! Hear Dr. Heidi Jo Newberg explain the topic here:

The Milky Way is a dynamic place, shaped by infalling dwarf galaxies that are pulled apart to make the stellar halo. The disk (and spiral structure) of the M...

03/31/2021

Interested in running simulations of dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way on your own computer? Looking for reputable, free software to run N-body simulations? Learn about our MilkyWay@home N-body Lite software here:

Introducing N-body software for generating tidal streams from dwarf galaxies that fall into the Milky Way galaxy.

03/05/2021

MilkyWay@home was featured in an Astrobites article yesterday! To learn more about our efforts to rewind stellar streams using volunteer computers, and ultimately measure the dark matter content of disrupted dwarf galaxies, read the article here:

Astronomers connect volunteered computers on MilkyWay@home and model the dark matter content of dwarf galaxies.

11/06/2020

Listen to the latest episode of RPI's "Why Not Change the World" podcast, where MilkyWay@home scientists Heidi Jo Newberg and Thomas Donlon discuss their recent discoveries involving a 3 billion year old "T-bone" collision between a dwarf galaxy and the Milky Way!

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