"We live in the suburbs of our galaxy," explains NASA. At night, with dark skies, we can easily look back on a portion of the Milky Way: A "milky" band on light sprawls across the sky. We're ...

This month the Sky at Night is focusing all its attention on one object M51 aka The Whirlpool Galaxy. Sitting approximately ... @bbc.co.uk or add them to our Flickr group (https://www.flickr.com ...

If you look up in the sky at night ... view of what's known as the circumgalactic medium (CGM), or gas halo, around IRAS08339+6517, a galaxy located roughly 270 million light years away from our ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky ... what it is—a very large and very close galaxy. Also called M31—and our closest giant neighboring galaxy at just 2.5 ...

But only one galaxy stands ... stellar island to our Milky Way -- the magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31). It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear autumn night as a faint cigar ...

The resulting colossal image was stitched together from 600 different fields of view, is made of at least ... also sheds light on our neighboring galaxy’s evolutionary history.

A close-up view of a prodigious number of stars in the Andromeda galaxy. Credit: NASA / ESA / B. Williams (U. of Washington) The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Scientists have published ... the edge of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Seen in polarised light for the first ...