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 is a unique NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope view of the disk galaxy NGC 5866 tilted nearly edge-on to our line-of-sight NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Take a trip through some of humanity's most spectacular galactic glimpses in ourspecial galleryfeaturing the be...
Related: Stunning Photos of Our Milky Way Galaxy (Gallery) To this end, for the first time ever, the EHT has been able to conduct VLBI at a shorter wavelength of 0.87mm. "With the EHT, we saw the first images of black holes by detecting radio waves at the 1.3mm wavelength, but the...
(Image credit: NASA/ESA/W. Harris) A previously unidentified highway of dust extends across the Milky Way, between the sun and the central bulge of the galaxy, scientists have found. Called the "Great Dark Lane" by the astronomers who announced it, the dusty road twists in front of the...
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This NASA graphic shows how scientists used Hubble Space Telescope observations of a distant quasar to discover that two giant gas bubbles are erupting from the Milky Way's core at 2 million mph. In this graphic, material shown in blue is moving toward the observer, while material in red is...
(Image credit: NASA/Adler/U. Chicago/Wesleyan/JPL-Caltech) From the inside, looking out The Milky Way, our home galaxy in space, is a vast galaxy containing 400 billion suns, at least that many planets, and a 4-billion-solar-mass black hole at the center. See how our Milky Way ...
Noel Camilleri captured this image of the Milky Way on Aug. 12, 2013 from Mtahleb, Malta. (Image credit: Noel Camilleri) The Milky Way shines brightly in two stunning images taken from the island of Malta. Noel Camilleri shot the first image, which features the Milky Way galaxy’s ...
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Milky Way Galaxy's Head-On Crash with Andromeda (Gallery) Our Milky Way galaxy may be teeming with ocean worlds But the Milky Way's orbit isn't circular or elliptical like the orbits of planets around the sun. "It's going to be weird to say if the Milky Way is orbiting around so...