The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is a barred spiral galaxy spanning ... hinting at further cosmic photography projects in the ...

The answer, in this case, was that the southern Milky Way wouldn’t rise until about 2:15 a.m. I needed the southern arm of the galaxy because that is the one that looks toward the center of the ...

Photography thrives on shared knowledge ... techniques and refining the nuances of post-processing. The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is a breathtaking collection of stars, dust and gas that ...

All good things come to an end—even the Milky Way. Our home galaxy’s demise isn’t estimated to occur for at least another 4 or 5 billion years, when astronomers believe it will start ...

Located about 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy home to active star formation. It is one of our Milky Way galaxy's closest neighbors alongside its ...

It took Finnish photographer JP Metsavainio 12 years and 1,200 hours of exposure to create this panorama of the Milky Way. Not only did he capture the entire galaxy, but also 20 million stars that ...

The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, which we see edge-on from our perspective on Earth, cuts a luminous swath across the image. The projection used in GigaGalaxy Zoom place the viewer in front of ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

The JWST's image of the Big Wheel galaxy, a massive rotating disk 11. ... It's five times more massive than the Milky Way, for context, stretches across 100,000 light-years. More specifically ...

Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could portend a terrifying future for life in the Milky Way. The discovery suggests that our models of ...

open image in gallery A group of researchers say they’ve found mysterious ‘space tornadoes’ in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. They used the largest astronomical project in existence to ...