If we lived in the core of the Milky Way, we would see up to one million times more stars in the night sky. There, the ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The core of the Milky Way in Sagittarius low in the south over the Frenchman River valley at ... [+] Grasslands National Park ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The core of the Milky Way in Sagittarius low in the south over the Frenchman River valley at ... [+] Grasslands National Park ...

If you look up in the sky at night at Cassiopeia ... it will collide with the Milky Way, throwing our solar system away from our own galactic core and reshaping the two galaxies into a single ...

It was a grand sight to see, the Milky Way stretching across the sky behind Owachomo Bridge. It was a natural subject for the opening spread of "Our Vanishing Night" in the November 2008 National ...

Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night. But the revelation of recent advances in digital photography is that ...

Light pollution—the needless shining of bright lights into the night sky—has robbed whole generations ... today have never even glimpsed the Milky Way. (When a massive power outage struck ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

Every star that you see in the sky is part of the same enormous galaxy. Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars ...

Located 12 million light-years away, M82 appears high in the northern spring sky in the direction of the ... holes known (central black dot) at the core of a young, star-rich galaxy.