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The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.
Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...
The Andromeda Galaxy, our closest galactic neighbor, just 2.5 million light-years away, has long captivated astronomers with ...
Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic ...
The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a similar spiral ...
The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...
Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...
Astronomers have uncovered a colossal, searing-hot filament of gas linking four galaxy clusters in the Shapley Supercluster a ...
Witness the breathtaking beauty of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, through 6 stunning images captured by NASA's Hubble Space ...
Jun 10, 2025 New hydrogen map shows Milky Way's clumpy flocculent structure The study employed a technique the researchers call 'pattern matching', using Cepheid variable stars to effectively anchor ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago ...