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

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Yet somehow, this tiny galaxy survived without being fried. "These are fully functional galaxies, but they're about a millionth of the size of the Milky Way," team member and University 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 ...

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 ...