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Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...
Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...
ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, ...
Witness the breathtaking beauty of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, through 6 stunning images captured by NASA's Hubble Space ...
The bright core of the Milky Way — the biggest and best sight at night — becomes visible in June in the Northern Hemisphere.
Scientists have long thought the Milky Way galaxy would someday collide with its closest neighbor, Andromeda. However, new ...
A ghostly white river is coursing over the continent this month. It isn’t fog, and it isn’t cloud. It’s the packed heart of ...
The first images released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory show details of our Solar System with unprecedented clarity.
The Bogong moth migrates 1,000 km, using stars in the Milky Way for navigation, a first for insects. They sense Earth's ...
Scientists have built detailed Milky Way simulations under strange new physical laws to probe dark matter, revealing how ...
A new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy found that there is a 50-50 chance that the Milky Way and the Andromeda ...