Measuring ongoing vibrations in the disk of the Milky Way — a kind of galactic seismology, Dr. Brown explained — has also led to evidence of an encounter with a satellite galaxy that orbits ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

Could our galaxy actually be inside a black hole ... while approximately one-third of them rotated counterclockwise. The Milky Way rotates counterclockwise, putting it in the minority.

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An undated image from NASA’s Webb Space Telescope shows an outflow from a nearby still-forming star in infrared light, with a spiral galaxy off in the distance. (NASA via AP) 32,951 people ...

Detailed Map of Dust in the Milky Way Mar. 13, 2025 — Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers ...

Ancient Greek philosophers debated the Milky Way’s nature, with some attributing it to celestial fires and others viewing it as a dense cluster of distant stars. Credit: Ale RaFlo, CC BY-SA 4.0 via ...

This revelation not only challenges our current models of galaxy evolution but hints that the Milky Way could someday unleash similar jets, potentially endangering life on Earth. The galaxy in ...

Mar. 13, 2025 — Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole ... organic molecules throughout the galaxy.

They have now hit upon a jackpot as they detected oxygen in a new world. However, this world is not in our Solar System, in fact, its outside our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have detected oxygen in ...