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Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.
At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...
The Solar System, home to Earth and countless other fascinating planets and moons, exists within the Milky Way galaxy. But ...
There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to ...
New research suggests that the Milky Way should be surrounded by as many as 100 undetected tiny and faint "orphan" galaxy ...
Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological ...
Columnist Justice B. Hill remembers the magic of starry nights from his youth and mourns how light and air pollution have ...
An international team of scientists have provided an unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur spread between the stars using ...
GOBBLE GOBBLE The young Milky Way, shown in an artist’s impression, swallowed a smaller galaxy about 10 billion years ago.The smaller galaxy’s stars are shown with yellow arrows depicting ...
You’ll have to wait until the sky is quite dark to begin our Milky Way Summer Road Trip, which means staying up or getting up at round 1 am. Then, facing the northeast, you’ll see a thumbnail ...
The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.