Astronomers have captured a close-up image of a dying star in a galaxy beyond our own—the first time this has ever been achieved.. The star, WOH G64, is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a ...

What is the Milky Way galaxy? Stunning photos show what the Milky Way looks like in the sky The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years.

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.

In the Milky Way Galaxy, cosmic rays (high-energy protons and heavier nuclei) interact with galactic gas and dust to produce both gamma rays and neutrinos. Kurahashi Neilson and colleagues noted that ...

First images of Milky Way’s black hole released 02:13. Astronomers have discovered powerful "twisted" magnetic fields spiraling around the black hole that sits at the center of the Milky Way ...

The polarized light image gives us a "new view of the monster lurking at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy," according to the European Southern Observatory. Accessibility links Skip to main content ...

The Milky Way galaxy. Image source: Peter Komka/MTI via AP Scientists have predicted for a while now that the fate of the Milky Way galaxy will result in a collision with our neighboring Andromeda ...

A new telescope image showcases two entangled galaxies that will eventually merge into one millions of years from now — and previews the eventual, similar fate of our own Milky Way galaxy.The ...

The 2022 image of the black hole depicts a four-million-solar-mass behemoth called Sagittarius A*. It is the first image of the object at our galaxy’s core and the Event Horizon Telescope (or ...

An image of the Milky Way captured from the Arkaroola International Dark Sky Sanctuary in South Australia. Oisin McDonnell/Poisin55/Reddit. The image was taken with a Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra ...

The new image is just the beginning of a bigger hunt for the faint ghosts of supernovas. "It is estimated that there may be about 1,500 more supernova remnants in the galaxy that astronomers haven ...

A new telescope image showcases two entangled galaxies that will eventually merge into one millions of years from now — and previews the eventual, similar fate of our own Milky Way galaxy.