Down here on Earth, if we’re lucky, we can spot the Milky Way glimmering in the night sky like a sparkling stretch of fog across space. It can be a rare sight, especially for city dwellers who ...
But the Milky Way actually hosts fewer satellites than similar galaxies, making it an outlier among its peers. A second study focused on star formation in satellite galaxies—an important metric ...
NASA image shows LMC as it passes through the gaseous halo of the Milky Way galaxy. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning dance happening in the outer reaches of our Milky Way galaxy.
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 Chandra team.
A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga. The Large Magellanic Cloud, also called the LMC, is one of the Milky ...
Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has uncovered strong and organised magnetic fields spiralling from its edge," ...