The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in breathtaking new photos from the European Southern Observatory.

The starry night sky can look like a salt ... you might even see a hazy belt stretched across the sky—the starry, dusty core ...

Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night ... stupendous galaxy. For me the revelation came the first time ...

Hubble’s work opened the door to the study of the universe beyond our galaxy ... assumed that the Milky Way was the entire universe. As astronomers scanned the night sky with larger telescopes ...

It was a grand sight to see, the Milky Way stretching across the sky behind Owachomo Bridge ... being out there in the dead silence of the desert night, seeing our images getting better and ...

These glass plates recorded images of the night sky using a light ... were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble’s results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was moving ...

An artist's concept shows the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way ... galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years. In this image, representing Earth's night ...