Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

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This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years. In this image ...

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This image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the location of different elements in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant ... W51 is one of the largest "star factories" in the Milky Way galaxy.

This artist’s concept portrays the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A* (A-star ... “It’s similar to how the Sun’s magnetic field gathers together, ...

The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, image of the Milky Way appearing beyond Earth's horizon. At the time, the ...

If you are away from city lights you’ll see the winter Milky Way stretching from the SSW ... Ursa Minor (the Little Dipper), Cepheus and Cassiopeia. In order of brightness in the March evening ...