The universe is filled with galaxies, including our own Milky Way. When pictured, galaxies appear like fairly set areas with ...
A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...
How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...
It is a majestic spiral-shaped galaxy, similar to our Milky Way, but containing many more stars. The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to our own. (We do have closer neighbor galaxies ...
A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger "basin of attraction" than we previously assumed. When you purchase ...
Using the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), Chinese astronomers have identified nearly 300 ...
The photograph of the Milky Way was taken by Oisin McDonnell, who is based in South Australia. He shared the image in a ...
A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...
Oct. 31, 2024 — For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful ...
How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...