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A new 527-megapixel image captures two open star clusters, NGC 456 and NGC 460, orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. The image uses ...
Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...
"The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," according to the Capture the Atlas ...
When looking up at the sky, you might think galaxies have always looked the way they do today. But a new study from Princeton ...
Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way ...
Back in 2010, scientists spotted something shocking: a pair of gigantic, glowing lobes of gas bursting from the Milky Way’s ...
Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...
While galaxies with highly organized structures like the barred spiral shape of the Milky Way are common now, that was not the case 11.1 billion years ago.
Stargazers can observe the Milky Way galaxy by looking for the Summer Triangle, a shape formed by "three bright stars" that spans across the Milky Way, according to science news website LiveScience.
The Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) Survey has looked at 101 spiral galaxies similar to the Milky Way and 378 satellite galaxies around those 101. Finding these smaller galaxies is ...
Stargazers can observe the Milky Way galaxy by looking for the Summer Triangle, "a shape formed by three bright stars" that spans across the Milky Way, according to LiveScience.com.
Astronomers Spot Galaxy Shaped Like Milky Way But Is Far More Massive The distant galaxy, called J0107a, was observed as it appeared 11.1 billion years ago, when the universe was about a fifth of ...