Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

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A new James Webb Space Telescope study finds that Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central black hole, constantly emits light from its swirling accretion disk. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf ...

New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...

Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captures a breathtaking photo of the Milky Way from the ISS, highlighting the stunning view of our galaxy. As part of Expedition 72, Pettit and his team conduct crucial ...

So Gaia is a spacecraft that was launched by the European Space Agency way back in December of 2013. And it was on a mission to create the best, biggest, most accurate map of the Milky Way ever.

Now imagine doing that on a cosmic scale." A mysterious, one-off flash of energy from an unknown object outside the Milky Way has left astronomers puzzled. The research team, led by Steven ...

Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would pulse every two hours, like a cosmic heartbeat. The long radio ...

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