Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

The Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy, has been extensively studied by NASA. Infrared images illustrate polarized dust, while X-ray data unveil giant bubble structures and superheated gas.

Astronomers have released an ultra-detailed image of the Sculptor galaxy obtained with 50 hours of observations using one of ...

Spiral galaxies can be further divided into two groups: normal spirals and barred spirals. In barred spirals, a bar of stars ...

While galaxies with highly organised structures like the barred spiral shape of the Milky Way are common now, that was not the case 11.1 billion years ago.

This discovery improves our understanding of how barred spiral galaxies, like our own Milky Way, grow and evolve. The study is published in the journal Nature.. In the early universe, more than 10 ...

Washington: Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with a straight bar of ...

Our planet itself is located along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms, about halfway from the center, according to NASA.. The Milky Way sits in a cosmic neighborhood called the Local Group that ...

While galaxies with highly organised structures like the barred spiral shape of the Milky Way are common now, that was not the case 11.1 billion years ago. More in Science ...

Scientists discover huge galaxy that resembles our Milky Way. The galaxy dates back to the universe’s infancy, 11.1 ... J0107a is now one of the earliest-known examples of a barred spiral galaxy.