I began photographing the Milky Way around 2018, but the hobby took off in earnest for me at the onset of the COVID years as ...

Every single star you can see is part of the Milky Way ... with Saturn slightly to its east. The Milky Way should be visible the other side of Jupiter in the southern sky. However, it’s really ...

delivering a comprehensive view of stellar populations, including previously unobservable areas on the far side of the Milky Way galaxy. The study has been posted to the arXiv preprint server as a ...

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

Seen in polarised light for the first time, the image above is of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way—or ... this side-by-side image of the supermassive ...

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of our Milky Way black hole released in 2022, has captured a new view of the massive object at the center of our ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way. New research suggests that the carbon that serves as the building blocks of ...

Every star that you see in the sky is part of the same enormous galaxy. Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars ...