St. Louis, Mo. — For decades, astronomers have been blind to what our galaxy, the Milky Way, really looks like. After all, we sit in the midst of it and can’t step outside for a bird’s eye view. Now, ...
The newly discovered feature offers insight into the large-scale structure of our galaxy, which is difficult to study from Earth’s position inside it. Scientists have spotted a previously unrecognized ...
The Milky Way has just been reconstructed in unprecedented detail, with artificial intelligence helping astronomers track the ...
The first official image from the Vera Rubin Observatory has revealed a ghostly river of stars stretching farther than our ...
Astronomers using a network of radio telescopes stretching from Hawaii to the Caribbean have refined measurement of the distance to the Milky Way spiral arm nearest Earth, confirming that it is only ...
Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...
The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...