Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ... the mass of our Sun and sits at the core ...

Watchers of the Connecticut skies should be able to watch the planets line up for 'parade' in February, and the start of ...

Cassiopeia is observable in the autumn and winter throughout the Northern Hemisphere. It lies opposite the Sun in early October ... it’s in the Milky Way’s plane, so plenty of dust and ...

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

Just east of Betelgeuse is the fine binocular cluster NGC 2244. But the much fainter Rosette Nebula that lies around the ...

MIRI images ... in a nearby galaxy. For the first time, we can observe individual low-mass protostars similar to the sun forming in small clusters—outside of our own Milky Way galaxy," shares ...

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer astronomers have constructed the most detailed image ever of this, or any star other than the Sun ... stars in our Milky Way Galaxy, the variable ...

IRAS 16562-3959 is a star-forming region in the Milky Way galaxy, located in the constellation Scorpius. It is about 5,900 light-years away from Earth. The Bubble Nebula is a ball of gas and dust in ...

An artist's impression of the Milky Way, seen edge-on. Image ... our galaxy’s central bar, the warp of the disc, the detailed structure of spiral arms, and interstellar dust near the Sun.” ...

Labeled version of the image above ... of the Milky Way. Even basic ideas have been revised, such as the rotation of our galaxy’s central bar, the warp of the disc, the detailed structure of spiral ...