The article reports on the news images from the Spitzer Space Telescope of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). According to such images, the Milky Way has just two arms of stars instead of the four it was previously thought ...
NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI/AURA) This is an imaginary view of our young Milky Way as it may have appeared 11 billion years ago, as seen from the surface of a hypothetical planet. The night sky looks markedly different than the view today. The Milky Way's disk and central bulge...
The James Webb Space Telescope revealed galaxies from more than 13 billion years ago that seem to be as mature as the Milky Way is now: "Something so unexpected it actually creates problems for science." Feb 23, 2023 CBS News Miami — Watch Live 24/7 ...
The Milky Way as seen from the International Space Station.Soichi Noguchi Astronaut Soichi Noguchi has posted a beautiful shot of the Milky Way from his unique vantage point on the International Space Station (ISS). The stunning photo also offers a glimpse of Earth about 250 miles below the or...
This enormous section of the Milky Way galaxy is a mosaic of images from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The constellations Cassiopeia and Cepheus are featured in this 1,000-square-degree expanse. These constellations, named after an ancient Queen and King of Ethiopia in...
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A*. (Image credit: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Wisconsin/Y.Bai. et al.) When the monster back hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy belched out an exceptionally high number of powerful X-ray flares last year...
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 ...
at Roberts' home observatory was one of the first images even taken of the galaxy Andromeda. At the time Roberts identified it as the Andromeda Nebula, as it wasn't until the next century that we truly understood we were seeing a completely different galaxy, outside of our own Milky Way....
Astronaut Don Pettit captured numerous elements in this frame including the Milky Way, Starlink satellites, and zodiacal light. Astronaut Don Pettit has captured an image so good that it is a contender for the best photo ever taken onboard the International Space Station (ISS). ...
"Lucky enough to be in Hawaii where I rented a car and drove up to the Ellison Onizuka Astronomy Center [June 28] at Mauna Kea and I was richly rewarded," Beck wrote in an email to Space.com. The Milky Way, the galaxy containing our own solar system , is a barred spiral galaxy wi...