Our solar system is located 26,000 light-years from the middle of our galaxy—“in the suburbs ... the first time in 2022. The ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

For the more than 100,000 years, humans have been on Earth, we have looked up at night and seen the stars and our celestial home, the Milky Way galaxy ... also been lost. Light pollution is ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy ... light has longer wavelengths than visible light ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy ... you can't see them with visible light telescopes.

The Andromeda galaxy is approximately 2.5 million light ... inside our Milky Way B - NGC 206 the most conspicuous star cloud ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

The core of the Milky Way in ... and you may catch a hazy ark of light stretching from horizon to horizon—the spiral arms of our own Milky Way galaxy. Good luck with that. With light pollution ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

Dive into a celestial masterpiece with the Hubble Space Telescope's latest snapshot of the Large Magellanic Cloud, showcasing ...

The Milky Way also has a supermassive black hole at its core ... tens or hundreds of light years into intergalactic space. The Milky Way is not considered an active galaxy—at least, not right ...