Detailed map of dust in Milky Way

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...
Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...
Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may ...
Earth may have cooled during a close encounter with dense star clouds. Interstellar dust from the Orion region might have ...
Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.
Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...
The Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), is unlike most of the galaxy. Almost 80 percent of its dense gas is held there, ...
"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...