The center of the Milky Way is super bright because it’s packed with a lot of stars and a supermassive black hole. That black hole, called Sagittarius A*, is millions of times bigger than our sun! It ...

From the meteor showers to super moons, this time of year gives us a front row seat to one of the most active regions of the ...

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

August has been a month jam-packed with cosmic phenomena visible from Earth – from nebulas to meteor showers to planetary conjunctions. But the month isn't over yet. And now, add to the mix one of the ...

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is a magnificent spiral galaxy with a disc of stars spanning over 100,000 light-years, according to NASA reports. Earth is located within one of its spiral arms, about ...

Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for stargazers to catch a glimpse of the band of billions of stars. "Milky Way season," when the galaxy's ...

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op. Milky Way season, when the galaxy's bright ...

The Milky Way galaxy is like a gigantic ocean gyre or eddy that spins and wobbles around its center. But our home galaxy also has a colossal wave rippling through it, pulling and pushing an ocean of ...

Most supermassive black holes don’t just swallow up matter, they eject it, sometimes in spectacular jets of super heated plasma. Sagittarius A* at the center of our galaxy has seemed oddly quiet, ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky. Spectators will have the best luck on cloud-free nights and in locations away from ...

The Milky Way is a spectacular sight in the summer skies but why does it look so much more brilliant than it does in the winter? For stargazers and astrophotographers in the northern hemisphere, ...