A SUMMARY of the most up-to-date knowledge of the galaxy is provided by an article ... commencing with Glydén's discovery in 1871 of the galactic rotation effect in stellar proper motions ...

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We’re just coming up on August’s “Milky Way” window, arguably the best 10 days of the year for viewing our galaxy. So clear your diary this weekend and get outside to as dark a site as ...

Situated approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth, the Andromeda Galaxy is the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way, belonging ... the most detailed rotation curve ever made for it ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.

The early universe was a chaotic place after the Big Bang. It was incredibly hot and dense, far beyond anything we can imagine. Astronomers are working to understand how galaxies formed and ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy – seen 600 million years after the Big Bang – that is similar to what our Milky Way galaxy might have looked like at the same ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of the Milky Way galaxy. The agency shared the visuals on social media, ...

“Discovering a galaxy with such similarities to our Milky Way, dominated by rotation, challenges our understanding of how ...

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way ... of life "took the long way around" the galaxy before coming together ...

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Geoff Bennett and Miles O'Brien discussed why scientists are ...