A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...

The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy may already be colliding after it was discovered that galaxies may have gas halos far ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Astronomers have examined the Extreme Outer Galaxy, also known as the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy, using the ...

Thirteen billion years ago, the gas and dust particles that eventually became our Milky Way were whizzing around in every ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

Planet Earth is located in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way (called the Orion Arm) which lies about two-thirds of the way out from the center of the galaxy. We know how big the Earth is ...

A team of NASA astronomers recently pointed the spacefaring telescope toward the outskirts of our own Milky Way galaxy to get a glimpse of some dense cosmic clouds home to star clusters undergoing ...

The Andromeda galaxy, moving towards the Milky Way at 110 km/s, might collide with our galaxy in 10 billion years. New research using Gaia and Hubble data suggests that gravitational forces from ...

This massive star resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. KY Cygni ranks 4th, boasting a radius 200 times bigger than our sun. This red supergiant resides in ...

And, if the timing is right, you might even see a hazy belt stretched across the sky—the starry, dusty core of our very own Milky Way galaxy. Right now is a peak time for United States-based ...

NASA's Webb Peers Into the Extreme Outer Galaxy Sep. 12, 2024 — Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this ...