The Milky Way contains between 100 billion and 400 billion stars, but the exact number is difficult to determine due to the galaxy's vast size and the presence of dust that obscures our view.

The Milky Way galaxy is our cosmic home. A barred spiral galaxy stretching 100,000 light-years across. ... – Size: 100,000 light-years across – Number of stars: about 200 billion ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

If you look up on a clear night from a darksky location, you might see the Milky Way as a faint band of thousands of stars.

His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way’s size and the nature of the nebulae. Hubble wrote about his discovery to Harlow Shapley, who had argued that the Milky ...

The Milky Way, however, is much larger than would be expected based on the size of our Local Sheet, despite not being an uncommonly large galaxy on a universal scale.

The “Red Monsters” are nearly as large as the Milky Way and create stars at a rate faster than most discovered galaxies. NASA/CSA/ESA, M. Xiao & P. A. Oesch (University of Geneva), G. Brammer ...

Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...

Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way ...

“Most of the Milky Way satellites have very ancient star populations. They stopped forming stars about 10 billion years ago,” said Marco Arias, the lead author of the study, in the same release.

This article was originally featured on The Conversation.. A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American ...

The Milky Way contains between 100 billion and 400 billion stars, but the exact number is difficult to determine due to the ...