Around 50 million years ago, a blue dwarf galaxy shot through the center of an enormous galaxy more than twice the size of ...
In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...
I began photographing the Milky Way around 2018, but the hobby took off in earnest for me at the onset of the COVID years as ...
The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.
A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...
In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking image of an unusual galaxy with a bullseye structure, as nine rings ...
The plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light-years from end to end – over 32 times the size of the Milky Way .
One of the key objectives of the new space observatory will be to search the Milky Way galaxy for essential building blocks ...