A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

A jaw-dropping video composite of the Milky Way showcases the awe-inspiring scale of the cosmos. The video, stitched together from a series of recent observations, reveals the vastness of our galaxy, ...

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According to NASA, they also reveal how gas within one galaxy may form and later give birth to stars. Galaxies merging 🌌 A supercomputer ... giving a preview of the inevitable collision between the ...

EASTENDERS actress Lacey Turner has opened up on the embarrassing way she was forced to tell her co-stars she was pregnant with her third child. The Stacey Slater actress welcomed a new bundle of ...

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will collide and explode in 23 billion years. The blast—were we around to ...

Using NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have taken the closest and clearest look yet at one of the most extreme places in our galaxy—a star ... of the Milky Way, this ...

The James Webb Space Telescope peers at Sagittarius C, a star-forming region about 200 light-years from the Milky Way's central black hole. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / S. Crowe "A big ...

Immense magnetic fields in the center of the Milky Way apparently ensure that, despite ideal initial conditions, fewer stars are formed than would be expected. This is suggested by findings now ...

“This publicly released catalogue will help us address a wide range of questions about the distribution of cold gas in the halo of the Milky Way and the processes through which galaxies convert gas ...

of the Milky Way. The CMZ, which contains tens of millions of solar masses of gas at the heart of the galaxy, produces far fewer stars than expected. While previous studies linked this anomaly to ...