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Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...
Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...
That makes this newly released map bigger than the largest Milky Way galaxy map ever created, which still only covers a small slice of the galaxy's overall layout.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.
Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...
A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that some of the galaxy’s molecular gas — the fuel for star birth — might be ...
The new observatory will allow astronomers to step through space and time like never before — these videos give us a taste of ...
Martin Kahanec, the co-founder and scientific director of the Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI), has received ...
The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...
The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...
Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...