Galactic Center of Milky Way

We may never have satisfying answers.

Giant, spinning galaxies go back a whopping 12 billion years. Large, massive, rotating galaxies like the Milky Way are common today. So how could one form a mere ~2 billion years after the Big Bang?.

Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may have had a lasting impact on Earth's climate, according to a new study.

Learn more about this new form of dark matter, which may positively charge hydrogen clouds.

The mass of the supermassive black hole in the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, is about 600,000 solar masses.

With radio and infrared telescopes, astronomers can pierce the dusty veil of our galaxy and map its farthest reaches

The great stellar dimming of T Tauri has begun. It's the ultimate game of cosmic "cover up," as the dimming occurs when a circumbinary disk from a nearby star passes in front of T Tauri….

Some cynics say that when you wish upon a star, that star is already dead. But don't listen to them! The stars you can see, and your dreams, are perfectly safe. The post When you wish upon a star, is it already dead? first appeared on EarthSky.

An old galaxy reveals clusters of young stars that have formed in an unusually synchronized fashion, challenging the idea that star formation declines as...

This blazingly-fast star is shooting through the Milky Way with a planet in tow

TIC 290061484 contains a pair of stars orbiting each other every 1.8 days, and a third star that circles the pair in just 25 days.

The Hubble team has released a stunning new image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the barred spiral galaxy IC 1954.

We're not dealing with a 'cosmic vacuum cleaner' situation.

"It's a little bit like a firecracker."

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Special Counsel Jack Smith's latest filing in the D.C. election subversion case against Donald Trump contains a "money line" that will ultimately determine a major issue in the criminal case, according to a former prosecutor. Ex-federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner over the weekend highlighted a n...

Nestled between mountains in a secluded corner of West Virginia, a giant awakens: the Green Bank Telescope begins its nightly vigil, scanning the cosmos for secrets.If intelligent life exists beyond Earth, there's a good chance the teams analyzing the data from the world's largest, fully steerable r...

What's Phil thinking? Join Phil Plait, The Bad Astronomer, beginning at 12:15 p.m. central (17:15 UTC) on Monday, August 12 ... to hear him talk about GAIA. The post LIVE: What's Phil thinking of NOW? GAIA first appeared on EarthSky.

A pair of new Hubble images show small dwarf galaxies, one of which is thought to be the result of a historical merger.

Researchers using the Gaia space telescope studied some ancient stars near the sun, revealing that our corner of the Milky Way may be billions of years older than once thought.