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 central zone of our galaxy hosts the Milky Way’s largest, densest collection of giant molecular clouds, raw material for making tens of millions of stars. This image combines archival infrared (blue), radio (red) and new microwave observations (green) from the Goddard-developed GISMO i...
NASA'sJames Webb Space Telescopeis providing the best look yet at the chaotic events unfolding around the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, observing a steady flickering of light punctuated by occasional bright flares as the material is drawn inward by its enormous g...
By pointing a powerful NASA space telescope away from our galaxy's star-studded core, astronomers are mapping the Milky Way's more sparsely populated outer fringes. "We sometimes call this flyover country," Barbara Whitney, an astronomer from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said in a ...
Found: First Actively Forming Galaxy as Lightweight as Young Milky Way For the first time,NASA’s James Webb Space Telescopehas detected and “weighed” a distantgalaxyfrom about 600 million years after theBig Bang. Remarkably, this galaxy appears to have a mass similar to what the Milky Way...
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 Soichi Noguchi has posted a beautiful shot of the Milky Way from his unique vantage point on the International Space Station.
Milky Way Galaxy The Milky Way Galaxy in the night sky. © Viktar—iStock/Getty Images globular cluster M80 Globular cluster M80 (also known as NGC 6093) in an optical image taken by the Hubble... The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/ STScI/ NASA) open cluster NGC 290 Open cluster NGC...
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 ...
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