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It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy ...
The new Star Wars galaxy map just proves that the franchise is expanding, just like our universe, with no signs of stopping ...
Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...
A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...
Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...
Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic time to 1 billion years after the Big Bang.
Our galactic neighborhood has no obvious street signs, and crafting a map pointing to one planet among the billions (and billions) of worlds populating the Milky Way is no simple feat.
A ghostly white river is coursing over the continent this month. It isn’t fog, and it isn’t cloud. It’s the packed heart of the Milky Way, a ...
The UAE will welcome a Buck moon on July 10, its first full moon of summer, according to the Dubai Astronomy Group.The Buc ...
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 ...
By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...
A surprising new look at the Milky Way has scientists rethinking everything we thought we knew about our home galaxy. Thanks to a groundbreaking method developed by astronomers fro ...