The observatory’s software will automatically compare new images with older ones and generate an estimated 10 million alerts ...

Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic ...

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

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"Our new maps nicely demonstrate that the spiral structure in the gas disk of the Milky Way is highly flocculent, and that the overall structure of the disk is complex,” Dr. Craig adds. “The maps ...

The Milky Way is one of billions of galaxies in the universe The Milky Way is just one of hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe, and it’s far from being one of the biggest. 100 galaxies ...