A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
After 11 years in solar orbit, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has completed its mapping of our Milky Way Galaxy to a precision ... backwards and find out where it came from, he ...
Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
"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 ...
Astronomers have discovered a giant radio galaxy with plasma jets stretching an incredible 3.3 million light-years—32 times ...
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 ...
the Andromeda Galaxy will collide with the Milky Way, resulting in a spectacular cosmic collision! Don’t worry, though – the distances between stars are vast, so we won’t feel a thing.
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 ...