A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2025/01/The_best_Milky_Way_animation_by_Gaia This is a new artist’s animation of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data ...

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2025/01/The_best_Milky_Way_animation_by_Gaia This is a new artist’s animation of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

“Tololo Lunar Eclipse Sky.” Cerro Tololo Observatory, Chile. On March 14, 2025, a total lunar eclipse occurred, especially visible over the Americas and the Pacific Ocean. I was fortunate to observe ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the heart of our galaxy that could signal unseen matter colliding — or perhaps ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star ...