2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year The winners of the 2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest have been announced, highlighting epic imagery of the Milky Way from around the world ...

Image credits: capturetheatlas #2 “Galaxy Of The Stone Array” By Alvin Wu. Moeraki Boulders, New Zealand. The Milky Way hangs over the sea. The night sky of the Southern Hemisphere condenses ...

NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI/AURA) This is an imaginary view of our young Milky Way as it may have appeared 11 billion years ago, as seen from the surface of a hypothetical planet.

Scientists announced Thursday that they had taken the first zoomed-in image of a dying star beyond our galaxy. The star is 160,000 light-years away in a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way.

The winners of the 2021 Milky Way Photographer of the Year have been announced, and they’re providing some of the best views of our galaxy that we’ve ever seen.

Astronomers can’t take a real picture—in the way us non-astronomers would consider it—because black holes are, by definition, invisible. So the photo released today doesn’t show the black ...

A team of scientists that included researchers from Harvard and MIT on Thursday unveiled the first-ever picture of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

The Real Reason to Upgrade to iPhone 16E ... Astronomers Reveal First 'Groundbreaking' Image of Milky Way's Black Hole ... managed to take pictures of the elusive engines powering our universe.

It would seem, then, that a black hole should be invisible — and taking its picture impossible. So great fanfare accompanied the release in 2019 of the first image of a black hole. Then, in spring ...

New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...

During this time, however, a picture of the star did not yet exist. According to scientists, about 24 zoomed-in images of stars in the Milky Way have been taken, but images of stars in other ...