Newly-processed image of Small Magellanic Cloud star cluster shows that this old space telescope can still impress with its ...

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will collide and explode in 23 billion years. The blast—were we around to ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish ... based MeerKAT radio telescope shows our home galaxy in a completely new way. Colored in blue, cyan, yellow and white, the main ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. 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 ...

The smallest, dimmest galaxy orbiting Andromeda to date. Image: CFHT/MegaCam/PAndAS (Principal investigator: Alan McConnachie; Image processing: Marcos Arias A group of astronomers has discovered ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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