For decades, astronomers have mapped the Milky Way using visible light, but much of our galaxy has remained hidden behind ...
From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds ...
New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...
New James Webb Space Telescope observations have revealed a galaxy that shouldn’t exist, a complex spiral galaxy named ...
The ever-busy James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently turned its gaze toward the core of our galaxy and revealed unprecedented details of the largest and most active stellar nursery nestled within.
Using artificial intelligence, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, alongside collaborators from the University of Tokyo and the Universitat de ...
The galaxy our planet inhabits is called the Milky Way for the simple reason that, as seen from our world, its impossible-to-count collection of stars looks like a band of milky white light. In all ...
The nights surrounding Aug. 29 are a great time to spot the stars of the famous 'Summer Triangle' asterism, bisected by the glowing band of the Milky Way, with an early-setting crescent moon providing ...
The Milky Way galaxy is like a gigantic ocean gyre or eddy that spins and wobbles around its center. But our home galaxy also has a colossal wave rippling through it, pulling and pushing an ocean of ...