Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

This swath of dust, which blocks out light from the bright nebula Gum 55 behind it, is known as the Dark Wolf Nebula.

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger "basin of attraction" than we previously assumed. When you purchase ...

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history. It did not grow though simple and calm accretion, but rather through the aggressive mergers of multiple smaller galaxies. Recently, a team of ...

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile.

Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new ... [+] dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects — arguably the largest such ...

The EHTC image of Sagittarius A*—the black hole at the center of the Milky Way—shows a dark, central region (the black hole's shadow) surrounded by a bright ring of light (called the accretion ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto has found what they believe is the oldest stellar disk in the Milky Way galaxy.

There’s more than one way for a star to die. Some go with a whimper, and some go with a very, very big bang ...

thousands without power Scientists think they've finally solved the decades-long mystery of why our Milky Way galaxy is so rare The Great, Disappearing Trump Campaign ...

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