We’re just coming up on August’s “Milky Way” window, arguably the best 10 days of the year for viewing our galaxy. So clear your diary this weekend and get outside to as dark a site as ...

The core of the Milky Way in Sagittarius low in the south over ... years from its center—it's impossible to get a face-on view of it. Instead, we see it as an arc of light across the night ...

While stellar surveys continue to expand in volume, our view of the Milky Way remains severely obscured, with the vast majority of stars we can study concentrated around the sun. This discrepancy ...