A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just ... It's five times more massive than the Milky Way, for context, stretches ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 light-years from the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

It also fulfilled its primary goal of drawing the biggest and most precise map of the Milky Way, providing the clearest reconstructed view of how our galaxy might appear to an outside observer.

PARIS: Europe’s Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into “retirement” on Thursday after a decade revealing the ...

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to construct the most detailed 3D map yet of the properties of dust in the Milky Way galaxy. Zhang and Green turned to data from ESA's Gaia mission, which was a 10.5-year-effort to obtain ...