In the right place at the right time, you can see it as a spilled-milk streak across the night sky ... across the Milky Way. The result is an unprecedented large-scale 3D map of the galaxy.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Astronomers ... 360º panoramic view of the Milky Way’s disk. “With this new survey, we can map the three-dimensional ...

All you need is a map—and they keep getting better ... Its observations of the southern extragalactic sky—areas away from the Milky Way’s disk—will help astronomers identify roughly ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has around 150 ...

A German-Russian space telescope has just acquired a breakthrough map of the sky ... evolution of the Milky Way. Some of the bigger splodges are well known actors on the sky.

NGC 6744 is a spiral galaxy bigger than, but otherwise very similar to, our own. NASA has dubbed the large spiral galaxy the ...

The Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy, has been extensively studied by NASA. Infrared images illustrate polarized dust, while ...

An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek ...

Europe's Gaia telescope has dropped its latest batch of data as it seeks to assemble the largest catalogue of light sources in the sky ... or very near, our Milky Way galaxy.

The newly discovered black hole-driven jets extend over 7 megaparsecs or 23 million light-years.

It's also paired with another galaxy that appears nearby in the sky ... a project to map the three-dimensional positions and ...

Astronomers have discovered twin black hole jets that span a distance greater than 140 Milky Way galaxies long, the biggest jets found yet.