Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Telescope have discovered an "exhaust vent attached to a “chimney” of hot gas blowing away from the center of the Milky Way galaxy," according to the ...

The study is published in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Large spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are expected to take several billion years to form. During the first billion years of cosmic history ...

A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could portend a terrifying future for life in the Milky Way. The discovery suggests that our models of galactic evolution could be inaccurate.

Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond. It is difficult to capture the breadth of ...

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 ...

Multiple surveys across optical, infrared, X-ray, and radio wavelengths support ... The Local Group, which includes the Milky Way, has a peculiar velocity of about 627 kilometers per second.

Hundreds of people head out to Al Quaa on weekends to experience stargazing in one of the UAE’s darkest locations, where the night sky lights up with the Milky Way, constellations, planets ...

This discovery raises the risk that the Milky Way's central black hole—Sagittarius A*—might end up producing similar jets in the future, with the cosmic-, gamma- and X-rays from such having ...

You can follow her on X or Instagram at @melissafleura ... and clearly defined spiral arms—hallmarks of spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way. "We named this galaxy Zhúlóng, meaning 'Torch ...

Shapiro currently pegs the light echo at about 150,000 to 250,000 light-years in diameter — about 1.5 to two times the width of the entire Milky Way galaxy. And if his estimates hold up ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...