In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Astronomers have found a massive radio jet, stretching across at least 200,000 light-years in the distant universe. The ...

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For many observers, the Milky Way's prime attraction is the northern galactic bulge from the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud up ...

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As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

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Astronomers at NASA have caught a glimpse of a star system whipping through space at an unprecedented speed. While the system ...

It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...