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 ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms. A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new ...

What it is: Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region of the Milky Way. Where it is ... MeerKAT radio telescope shows our home galaxy in a completely new way. Colored in blue, cyan, yellow and white, the ...

Located about 200 light-years from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way ... the center of the galaxy. Instead of looking smooth like the Orion Nebula, Sagittarius C appears ...

The James Webb Space Telescope peers at Sagittarius C, a star-forming region about 200 light-years from the Milky Way's central black ... "both in our galaxy and beyond." ...

The JWST's image of the Big Wheel galaxy, a massive rotating disk 11. ... It's five times more massive than the Milky Way, for context, stretches across 100,000 light-years. More specifically ...

Sagittarius ... of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. Stars tend to form within what scientists call "molecular clouds," or regions of space containing dense clouds of gas and dust. The closest such ...

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

This all-sky view is an overlay of ESA Gaia’s star map from its second data release in 2018 and ... with the bright horizontal band corresponding to the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, where most of ...

Launched into space over a decade ago, Gaia has been instrumental in charting the Milky Way ... map of the galaxy, but also how it will change over time. Scientists were able to understand the shape ...

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 ...

Our home galaxy is still slowing devouring the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, Gaia helped reveal. The telescope also spotted more than 50 dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way.