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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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

SEE ALSO: NASA scientist viewed first Voyager images. What he saw gave him chills. In a hypothetical view from Earth, the warped Milky Way and Andromeda (on right) after their initial collision.

NASA citizen scientists have made an exciting discovery—an object moving at a speed of 1 million miles per hour, fast enough to escape the Milky Way galaxy. This finding, a first of its kind ...

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

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

This region, which lies about 58,000 light-years from the Milky Way’s center ... In an article from NASA, Natsuko Izumi of Gifu University and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan ...

Webb's imagery has enabled scientists to better study star formation in the outer Milky Way. A team of NASA astronomers recently pointed the spacefaring telescope toward the outskirts of our own ...