Our sun and the planets that circle it are part of a galaxy called the Milky Way. Its name comes from the Greek galaxias ...

A newly-discovered spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang – far earlier, considering its size, than astronomers thought possible. Themiya Nanayakkara ...

The Milky Way galaxy is packed with hydrogen atoms, and these atoms are constantly emitting 21 cm radiation. The best part is that this radiation can travel long distances through the interstellar ...

29, 2025, image of the Milky Way appearing beyond Earth's horizon. At the time, the International Space Station was orbiting 265 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile just before ...

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New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...

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blast of X-rays coming from within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a galaxy that orbits the Milky Way from roughly 160,000 light-years away. "Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and ...

Astronomers have observed a flare of light near Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. These bursts happen daily; some last seconds, others shine for a ...

In a labeled version of this projection, the starkly different planes of the ecliptic and the Milky Way are much more visible.