The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most detailed image yet of the Antennae Galaxies. Hubble previously ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

An artist’s illustration depicts the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*. It’s surrounded by a swirling accretion disk of hot gas and dust.

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 ...