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 ...

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 ...

Space is a big place and there's lots of strange stuff out there, but scientists aren't quite sure where these massive space ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

According to a new study in the Astrophysical Journal, the Milky Way Galaxy (i.e., ours) could contain around 36 intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations (in addition to — or perhaps not ...

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