ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.
"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really ... Then, all you'd need to do to work out how far away the star is would ...
With this definition, the outer boundary of the Milky Way would go out much further than previously understood. In fact, the ...
Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy ... They know it's out there because they know the gravitational ...
Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due to a past galactic collision. NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy ...
It turns out that the Firefly Sparkle’s original ... But around the cosmic time that we are seeing the Firefly Sparkle, Milky Way-like galaxy progenitors were about 10,000 times less massive ...
It’s beautiful but also a reminder of the ultimate fate that awaits our own Milky Way galaxy. The image was captured using the NOIRLabs’ International Gemini Observatory. NOIRLabs says that ...