A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Where is our solar system in the vast assemblage of celestial objects in this island Universe we call the Milky Way? To answer that question, we can begin with the beautiful configuration of stars we ...

Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Astrophotographers use sophisticated imaging technology to take and edit photographs that bring us the cosmos with startling ...

From the mountain meadows of Uttarakhand to the moonscapes of Ladakh, India's diverse landscapes offer extraordinary ...

Researchers from the University of Arizona and Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany have now created the sharpest ...

Hubble's first gigapixel panorama of the Andromeda Galaxy was published exactly ten years ago. This has now been ...

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The galaxy, located in the constellation Leo, is about the same size as a star cluster within the Milky Way and is about the ...

causing matter to be pulled away from one galaxy," he said. The tidal tail of NGC 3785 falls in the second category. Unlike the Milky Way, Ultra-diffuse galaxies are hardly detectable due to their low ...

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