Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

Astronomers have discovered "space tornadoes" raging through the heart of the Milky Way in ... more complete view of the cycle of creation and destruction at the heart of our galaxy.

With the night side of Earth well-placed for observations away from the Milky Way, distant galaxies that can be imaged include the Leo Triplet (M65, M66, NGC 3628), the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101 ...

Credit: Ale RaFlo, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Our galaxy ... far from Earth. The Greek atomic philosopher Democritus expanded on this idea, suggesting that the Milky Way consisted of countless ...

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Deep in the galaxy ... Milky Way’s center, clouds of dust and gas swirl amid energetic shock waves. Now, a collaboration of international astronomers – using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...

Recently, astronomers made an astonishing discovery — a mysterious and powerful burst of radio waves reached Earth after traveling through ... as they can originate from regions far beyond our Milky ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...