Toward the end of the 18th century, astronomer William Herschel used star counts to map out the Milky Way. He cataloged a thousand new nebulae and clusters of stars. He believed that the nebulae ...

the nebulae form a vast star-forming complex that makes up part of the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. Pillars of Creation: A breathtaking image resembling desert spires, filled with ...

Clearly, the Andromeda Nebula was a system of stars quite separate from the Milky Way, and in many ways comparable to it. From this simple observation, soon repeated for other starry nebulae ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish, pinkish and bluish-white arc across the night sky, but this new super-long exposure image from South Africa's ground-based MeerKAT ...

To celebrate Hubble's 35th anniversary, ESA/Hubble released a breathtaking new image of the star-forming region NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. This cosmic nursery, packed with thousands of ...

Our sun and the planets that circle it are part of a galaxy called the Milky Way. Its name comes from the Greek galaxias ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way Galaxy. This cloudy region ... stellar nursery to Earth lies in the Orion Nebula, just below Orion's belt.

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region ... stellar nursery to Earth lies in the Orion Nebula, just below Orion's belt.

On this day in 2024, the East Anglian Daily Times reported that an image of the Milky Way had been captured over one of Suffolk's most popular beaches. Jon Allard, an astronomical photographer, took ...