10 Astonishing Things You Should Know About the Milky Way
The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.
Shockingly Tiny Galaxy Near Andromeda Is Just One-Millionth the Size of the Milky Way
Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...
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Black holes spew out powerful jets that span millions of light-years – we’re trying to understand their whole life cycle
There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it’s called ...
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The Beast’s environment: How a supermassive black hole shapes the fate of the Milky Way
At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...
NASA Gears Up for Weekend Launch Carrying Missions to Study the Milky Way and Sun
A SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions, is scheduled to lift off on Tuesday, March 4 at 10:09 p.m. ET.
NASA launches 'incredible' new tools into space to study the universe, sun's corona
SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. Here's what to know.
Runaway stars reveal hidden black hole in Milky Way's nearest neighbor
Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...
Amazing Milky Way photo shows Earth from a unique perspective
Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...