Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...

The research team said these rings likely formed when a smaller galaxy shot through the heart of the Bullseye galaxy roughly ...

A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.

After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his colleagues on his behalf reported that the Andromeda ... of the Milky Way. Hubble's work opened the door ...

The Andromeda nebula ... redshifted galaxies were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble’s results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was moving away from Earth.

Some of his favorite subjects include the Orion Nebula (1,500 light-years away) and the Andromeda Galaxy (2.5 million ... able to actually photograph the Milky Way,” he said, “you really ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper ...

Astronomers have released the most comprehensive photograph of the Andromeda galaxy, which contains over 200 million stars. This astounding accomplishment sheds light on the galaxy's development and ...