The Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy, has been extensively studied by NASA. Infrared images illustrate polarized dust, while ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...

Astronomers have long considered it inevitable that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with the neighboring galaxy ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have ... it 100 times the field of view of Hubble, allowing it to map the Milky Way and other galaxies much faster.

NGC 6744 is a spiral galaxy bigger than, but otherwise very similar to, our own. NASA has dubbed the large spiral galaxy the ...

Among the Milky Way’s outskirts is a firecracker show of star formation. How do environmental factors affect the star ...

NASA's Webb Peers ... the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location more than 58,000 ... Magnetic Field Maps of the Sun's Corona ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has provided groundbreaking data from near the edge of the solar system, revealing the cosmic ...

Sep. 12, 2024 — Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy ... Magnetic Field Maps of the Sun's Corona Sep. 11, 2024 ...

Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space — so far that the Milky Way likely ...

Image: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team In fact, the halos of gas from galaxies extend so far into deep space that galaxies actually interact with each other. The findings suggest ...

However, unlike most spiral galaxies, M33 lacks a central bulge, which would otherwise house a supermassive black hole. As a ...