Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a colorful view of the famous Trifid and Lagoon nebulas illuminated from within by radiation cast out by generations of energetic young stars.

Witness the breathtaking beauty of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, through 6 stunning images captured by NASA's Hubble Space ...

A ghostly white river is coursing over the continent this month. It isn’t fog, and it isn’t cloud. It’s the packed heart of ...

The 100 light-year-long form of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) can be found dominating the lower section of Meyer's image, with the dense starfield near the Milky Way's core serving as a backdrop ...

June 2025 presents a unique chance to observe the Milky Way's core, visible from evening until dawn in dark locations. Favorable moon phases enhance the view, alongside planetary alignments and ...

What you’re looking at is the bright central core of our home galaxy, seen edge-on, from our position within the galaxy’s disk.” It might seem confusing that we can see the Milky Way whilst ...

Some of my favorite objects to espy in big Dobs are globular clusters, and with a full view of the Milky Way’s core, the southern sky is replete with them.

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy that bulges in the center. This bulge is thousands of light-years across and contains a quarter of the total stars of our galaxy. The age of the bulge has puzzled ...

The only evening planet for July is Mars, faint red in the west at dusk, and getting lost in the Sun’s glare by August. High ...

In this combination of images from NASA/ESA shows three future scenarios for Milky Way & Andromeda encounter. Top left: Galaxies bypass at 1 million light-year separation. Top right: At 500,000 ...