In a remarkable astronomical discovery, a team of researchers led by Yale University has uncovered an extraordinary galaxy ...
In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...
In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...
Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, Adrian Price-Whelan ...
Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...
This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... globular clusters—are moving to work out where they came from. Even when the Milky ...
Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy ... They know it's out there because they know the gravitational ...
It’s beautiful but also a reminder of the ultimate fate that awaits our own Milky Way galaxy. The image was captured using the NOIRLabs’ International Gemini Observatory. NOIRLabs says that ...