Around 35 participants gathered on Oct. 28 in Fayette for a Night Sky Tour led by John Meader, experiencing a guided ...

It's hard to imagine that someday, the Milky Way galaxy will cease to exist. Looking up at the stars, it feels as though Earth, and even the solar system that it belongs to, is infinite. But our sun ...

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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the ...

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history. It did not grow though simple and calm accretion, but rather through the aggressive mergers of multiple smaller galaxies. Recently, a team of ...

Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it could change our understanding of how galaxies form. The galaxy ...

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 ...

“Seeing a galaxy with such similarities to our own Milky Way... challenges our understanding of how quickly galaxies in the early Universe evolve,” noted Lucie Rowland, the study's lead author ...

That region of the Milky Way galaxy is known to include a supermassive black hole surrounded by neutron stars and white dwarfs that strip material from nearby stars. The area is shrouded with ...