The new image is an up-close view of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors. The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest ...

Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 346, a star cluster located within the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is one of the Milky Way's nearest ... back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest ...

delivering a comprehensive view of stellar populations, including previously unobservable areas on the far side of the Milky Way galaxy. The study has been posted to the arXiv preprint server as a ...

NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and ...

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way, containing more than 1.5 ... we have changed the view of our galaxy forever.” The data covers an area of the sky ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters could play an important role in distributing organic molecules ...

That could be why the Milky Way appears warped when viewed from the side. The launch of the Gaia ... light that streaked across its field of view. Three instruments aboard precisely measured ...

but the view from low Earth orbit prominently reveals the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud, which are representative satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, clearly visible in ...

ALMA’s amazingly high resolution has sharpened the view of the tempestuous churn in Milky Way’s central zone. This area, surrounding the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), acts as a kind ...

For comparison, the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way has about 4 million solar masses. Elsewhere in the universe, there are supermassive black holes with billions of times more mass than ...

Astronomers have had a rare glimpse into the heart of the Milky Way thanks to an errant star expelled from the galactic centre. At the middle of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole ...

shared stunning photos of the ground-based telescopes beneath a glowing blood red moon and dazzling view of the Milky Way in a post on X (formally Twitter). The recent lunar eclipse — the first ...