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By Kat Troche As summer deepens in the Northern Hemisphere, a familiar constellation rises with the galactic core of the ...
It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy ...
A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...
Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...
Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...
We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...
The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion galaxies, to be stitched together in broad panoramas giving astronomers ...
This new image of NGC 4449, building on Hubble’s 2007 release, combines data from multiple programs to reveal its star-formation history and map massive stars across nearby gala ...
Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...
The moment you glimpse the Milky Way stretched across the night sky, you realize how many stars city life has stolen from you. Most people don’t even know what a truly dark sky looks like anymore. But ...
The researchers observed the Sculptor Galaxy for over 50 hours with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on the VLT to create the detailed map. They then stitched together over 100 ...
Building a hydrogen map for the Milky Way has long been crucial to understanding the galaxy's structure, dynamics, star formation and evolution, as well as refining the observations of distant ...