Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system 's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

This has given us an accurate 3D view of the inner regions of the Milky Way, which were previously hidden by dust. The ...

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile.

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...

The image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope.

The image shows the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of our galaxy about 26,000 light-years away.

Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

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“Seeing a galaxy with such similarities to our own Milky Way... challenges our understanding of how quickly galaxies in the early Universe evolve,” noted Lucie Rowland, the study's lead author ...

Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky ... us that the early stages of galaxy formation don’t work the way we think?

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history. It did not grow though simple and calm accretion, but rather through the aggressive mergers of multiple smaller galaxies. Recently, a team of ...