The Milky Way galaxy is our cosmic home. A barred spiral galaxy stretching 100,000 light-years across. Here we explore our galactic neighborhood in more detail.
This photo illustration is based on a Hubble Space Telescope survey of evolving Milky Way-type galaxies. [Read the Full Story Here] Illustration of Early Milky Way NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI/AURA) This is an imaginary view of our young Milky Way as it may have appeared 11 billion...
A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the heart of our galaxy, in a region close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*. The image shows a star-forming region where filaments of dust and gas are clumping together to give birth to ...
Currently, we can’t take a picture of the Milky Way from above. This is due to the fact that we are inside the galactic disk, about 26,000 light years from the galactic center. It would be like trying to take a picture of your own house from the inside. This means that any of ...
Astronomers using data from NASA and the ESA (European Space Agency) telescopes have released a new all-sky map of the outermost region of our galaxy. Known as the galactic halo, this area lies outside the swirling spiral arms that form the Milky Way's recognizable central disk and is spar...
NASA Selects Gamma-Ray Telescope To Probe Origins of Galactic Positrons, Chart Milky Way Evolution New All-Sky Map of Milky Way’s Outer Reaches Released – Could Offer a New Test of Dark Matter Theories Hubble Shows Us the Future: A Galactic Collision Mystery As Hubble Finds Milky Way Ra...
This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) shows a beautiful spiral galaxy called NGC 6744. At first glance, it resembles our Milky Way albeit larger, measuring more than 200,000 light-years across compared to a 100,000-light-year diameter for ...
'Hubble Telescope' Pic of 'Serenity Nebula' Is Truly Unreal Written by: Nur Ibrahim Sept. 9, 2023Those clouds of dust and gas in space known as nebulae make for a beautiful sight. Read More Does Pic Show Milky Way Galaxy Framed By Karnak Egyptian Temple?
See the wonders of the Milky Way in this new infrared map Hubble images a pair of galaxies caught in the process of merging Browse through 3B celestial objects in Milky Way survey Astronomers find remnants of planets around 10 billion-year-old stars ...
Kepler lived a fruitful life by any metric, but it hasn’t been an easy one. Too far into deep space for us to repair it as we did Hubble, hardware failures aboard the observatory nearly brought the program to a halt in 2013. When NASA announced the spacecraft was beyond hope of repa...