"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of precious life in it?" ...

This new cloud, designated M4.7-0.8, was detected using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and is located at the midpoint of a dust lane in the Milky Way’s central bar, about 23,000 light years from ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish, pinkish and bluish-white arc across the night sky, but this new super-long exposure image from South Africa's ground-based MeerKAT ...

of the Milky Way. The CMZ, which contains tens of millions of solar masses of gas at the heart of the galaxy, produces far fewer stars than expected. While previous studies linked this anomaly to ...

An image of the Milky Way captured by the MeerKAT radio telescope array puts the James Webb Space Telescope’s image of the Sagittarius C region in context. The MeerKAT image spans 1,000 light ...

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 ...

Three-dimensional maps of the interstellar dust extinction curve within the Milky Way galaxy. Science , 2025; 387 (6739): 1209 DOI: 10.1126/science.ado9787 Cite This Page : ...

The results allowed the astronomers to reconstruct the first detailed, three-dimensional map of the extinction curve of dust in the Milky Way. This map was made possible by Zhang and Green's ...

Astronomers have discovered a new giant molecular cloud (GMC) in the Milky Way, a finding that has expanded our understanding of the galaxy’s structure and star formation processes. This new cloud, ...