A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.
In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...
Galaxies are astronomical objects composed of billions or even trillions of stars. Our Earth and solar system are just a tiny ...
A stronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the ...
New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky Way on a cosmic "conveyor belt," before eventually returning to our galaxy ...
The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way. New research suggests that the carbon that serves as the building blocks of ...
A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.