The article discusses an image of the Milky Way Galaxy released by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on the first day of the symposium "Chandra's First Decade of Discovery," a referenc...
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...
This image by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows a face-on view of the spiral galaxy M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) With the upcoming 2020 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope promising to capture pic...
[Images: Milky Way's Monster Black Hole Shreds … Something] Bright flare activity increases Packing a double punch of observational power, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space telescope have been observing Sgr A* (pronounced "Sagittarius A-star") ...
In a recently published study, they announced the release of their final data product: a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects—the most detailed map our galaxy has ever created! With over 200,000 images and 500 terabytes of data, this map is also...
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...
Milky Way Wayne Sheridan Wayne Sheridan, a retired scientist and lifelong amateur photographer in St. Charles, Mo., took this image of the night sky in Stanley, Idaho. "I have traveled the U.S. looking for places to see the Milky Way, but this is the best experience I have had," he...
Astronaut Soichi Noguchi has posted a beautiful shot of the Milky Way from his unique vantage point on the International Space Station.
(NASA / NASA) To help narrow down when you can look up and see the Milky Way in full detail, consider when the sky is as dark as possible, specifically regarding the Moon and bright moonlight. The darkest skies are seen during the New Moon, when the night side of the Moo...
The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.[1][2][3][nb 1] This name derives from its appearance as a dim "milky" glowing band arching across the night sky, in which the naked eye cannot distinguish individual stars. The term "Milky Way" is a translation of the Clas...