In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...
Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...
Conflicting distance measurements have added to the uncertainty. One data source places one object at 6,500 light years away, ...
A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...
Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.
A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...
The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...
Using the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa, an international team of astronomers has detected 26 new Galactic radio ...
Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...
His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way's size and the nature of the nebulae. Hubble wrote ...
The plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light-years from end to end - over 32 times the size of the Milky Way ...
The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...