The resulting image (which you can see below) captures the entire galaxy, speckled with about 20 million of the Milky Way's roughly 200 billion stars. The entire Milky Way, as imaged by J-P ...

An image of what looks like a glowing orange donut is actually the first picture of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

For the first time, astronomers have captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, confirming the presence of the cosmic object. It is 4 million times ...

A survey of 700,000 stars at the Milky Way's center suggests an outburst of star-forming activity 1 billion years ago. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at ...

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.

What is the Milky Way galaxy? Stunning photos show what the Milky Way looks like in the sky The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years.

Astronomers have captured a close-up image of a dying star in a galaxy beyond our own—the first time this has ever been achieved.. The star, WOH G64, is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a ...

The polarized light image gives us a "new view of the monster lurking at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy," according to the European Southern Observatory. Accessibility links Skip to main content ...

First images of Milky Way’s black hole released 02:13. Astronomers have discovered powerful "twisted" magnetic fields spiraling around the black hole that sits at the center of the Milky Way ...

In the Milky Way Galaxy, cosmic rays (high-energy protons and heavier nuclei) interact with galactic gas and dust to produce both gamma rays and neutrinos. Kurahashi Neilson and colleagues noted that ...

A new telescope image showcases two entangled galaxies that will eventually merge into one millions of years from now — and previews the eventual, similar fate of our own Milky Way galaxy.The ...

Our Milky Way galaxy will crash head-on into the Andromeda galaxy in billions of years. See how it may look from Earth in this series of artist views and NASA images.