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The interstellar medium in our Milky Way galaxy is magnetic, can be compressed, and is turbulent. It affects important ...
Find out where to catch the Milky Way's appearance in the night sky as it becomes more visible with the 2025 summer ...
Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the Milky Way called the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). This region holds clues ...
The peak period to view the Milky Way will be from Tuesday, May 20, to Friday, May 30. "The galaxy's bright core becomes ...
NASA's newest space telescope, on a mission to study origins of universe, snapped incredible images of the cosmos 2 months ...
The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronauts Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from ...
Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests.
The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe.
Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away.
California stargazers will soon be able to witness a dazzling celestial sight composed of billions of stars. In late May, the Milky Way Galaxy will appear as a vibrant band arching across the night ...
The Milky Way, one of astronomy’s most dazzling phenomena, is our home galaxy with a disk of stars spanning more than 100,000 ...