Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

The Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy, has been extensively studied by NASA. Infrared images illustrate polarized dust, while X-ray data unveil giant bubble structures and superheated gas.

Spiral galaxies can be further divided into two groups: normal spirals and barred spirals. In barred spirals, a bar of stars ...

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy composed of an estimated 300 billion stars, along with dust, gas, and celestial phenomena such as nebulae, ...

While galaxies with highly organised structures like the barred spiral shape of the Milky Way are common now, that was not the case 11.1 billion years ago.

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with a straight bar of stars and ...

This discovery improves our understanding of how barred spiral galaxies, like our own Milky Way, grow and evolve. The study is published in the journal Nature.. In the early universe, more than 10 ...

Scientists discover huge galaxy that resembles our Milky Way. The galaxy dates back to the universe’s infancy, 11.1 ... J0107a is now one of the earliest-known examples of a barred spiral galaxy.

While galaxies with highly organised structures like the barred spiral shape of the Milky Way are common now, that was not the case 11.1 billion years ago. More in Science ...