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 ...

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

That's the Andromeda galaxy, our closest galactic neighbor, and in 4 billion years, it will collide with the Milky Way, throwing our solar system away from our own galactic core and reshaping the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble first established that this so-called "spiral nebula" was actually very far outside our own Milky Way galaxy —at a distance of approximately 2.5 million light-years ...

"The Sun is just one among a hundred billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, each with its own ... first with infrared energy and then with visible light. As gravity continues to pull the infant ...