S284p1 sits at the edge of the Milky Way about 15,000 light-years from Earth. As superheated gas falls onto the star, it gets ...

The James Webb Space Telescope caught the birth of an enormous star with particle beams cutting across a stretch of ...

As NASA described it, the stellar jet located on the outskirts of the Milky Way resembles Darth Maul’s double-bladed lightsaber from “Star Wars.” ...

A blowtorch of seething gases erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA's James Webb Space ...

Gamma ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the universe, unleashing as much energy as the Sun will in its 10 ...

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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 ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. What you're looking at when the Milky Way is visible is the bright center of our galaxy with billions of ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...

The Milky Way's core will be visible to stargazers in the southern hemisphere, including Tennessee, this month and throughout August. No special equipment is needed to view the galaxy, just a dark sky ...

"This is the time of year when the Milky Way is visible as a faint band of hazy light arching across the sky all night," says Preston Dyches at NASA in the June 2025 installment of his monthly vlog, ...

Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda. But a new study complicates the story. Researchers have long thought that the Milky Way ...