Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

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You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round trip on a cosmic conveyer belt.

This orbiting telescope was launched in July last year and despatched to an observing position some 1.5 million ... the middle is the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, with the centre of the galaxy ...

Prior to Gaia, obtaining a robust rotation curve for our galaxy was challenging, unlike the case for external spiral galaxies. This challenge stemmed from our position within the Milky Way ...

That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd ...

Scientists have supercharged one of Earth's most powerful telescopes ... It will show how our Milky Way galaxy was built up over billions of years. Prof Gavin Dalton of Oxford University has ...

Scientists have discovered two “super-Earth” exoplanets ... cooler than our Sun and easily the most abundant in our Milky Way galaxy, making up about 80% of the population as far as ...

This natural cosmic phenomenon allowed astronomers to study the intricate structure of the galaxy despite its immense distance from Earth ... resemble our own Milky Way. This gives us an ...