Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on the complex physics driving ...

But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space ...

Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across the universe. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, 2.5 million light-years away, is unveiled in Hubble's largest photomosaic. Spanning a decade, this 2.5-billion-pixel image reveals 200 million stars and Andromeda’s dynamic ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in observations..

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But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way — the magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31). It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear autumn ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way -- the magnificent ...

Like the nickname suggests, these celestial objects appear to be compact—much smaller than our Milky Way galaxy. And their color is reddish, although their light signatures are also unusual in ways ...

at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the first time. In simultaneous observations, the team found a radio counterpart flare lagging behind. Scientists have been actively observing Sgr A*— a SMBH ...