A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...
Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...
New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...
That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd ...
Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
In the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, such as the Andromeda Galaxy, astronomers can observe stars one by one. But for ...
In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the ...
The one in the middle of the Milky Way, called Sagittarius A(asterisk ... Scientists said they appear to orbit each other at just the right distance: If they were too spread out, the black ...
Shapley's goal was to measure the size of the Milky Way — and hence the universe as he saw it — by creating the first official cosmic distance ladder. Cepheid variables that he identified in ...