This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. It's hard to be modest when you live in the Milky Way. Our galaxy is far larger, brighter, and more massive than most ...

His photos appear frequently in National Geographic magazine. It was a grand sight to see, the Milky Way stretching across ... needed the southern arm of the galaxy because that is the one that ...

Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight ... Jim Richardson has been a National Geographic photographer for over three decades, documenting landscapes and cultures around ...

This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... blazing color the radio glow of the Milky Way, lit up with the remains of exploded stars and intense magnetic ...

Thousands of these stellar-mass black holes may lurk within our own Milky Way galaxy. Supermassive black holes, predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity, can have masses equal to ...

Ancient white dwarf stars shine in the Milky Way galaxy. Stars like our sun fuse hydrogen in their cores into helium. White dwarfs are stars that have burned up all of the hydrogen they once used ...

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10 of the best places for stargazing in the UK 10 of the best places for stargazing in the UK Dark sky tourism is on the rise across the U.S. Dark sky tourism is on the rise across the U.S.