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Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...
The James Webb Space Telescope reveals turbulent environments found in Sagittarius C, a core part of our Milky Way galaxy.
NASA's most powerful telescope has once again left scientists scratching their heads after challenging their understanding of ...
A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms. The galaxy, NGC 5530, is located 40 million light-years from Earth in the ...
When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the narrator taking us both outward toward the fathomless end of the Universe ...
Scientists have discovered that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is larger than should ... of thousands of views, but is it real? At 40 light years away from Earth, TRAPPIST-1's four Goldilocks ...
Located around 200,000 light-years from Earth ... is a dwarf galaxy that, alongside its neighbor the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), is gravitationally bound to our Milky Way.
Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky ... galaxy that encompasses Earth, such as where and how many galaxies there are that surround the Milky Way.
A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come ... found that a massive spiral galaxy almost 1 billion light-years away from Earth harbors a supermassive black hole ...
Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would ... detectable from Earth.De Ruiter, who developed her method ...