the wispy glow of our own Milky Way galaxy is accompanied by Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars as they make their way through the night sky. A bright moon lights up the desert ...
Matteo Strassera wins the top place in this round with an image of the Milky Way captured over sand dune curves in the Rub’ al Khali desert, Meanwhile, Max Benkard came first place in the Young ...
Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...
Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...
To make this discovery, researchers traced the paths with ultra-fine precision of 21 stars on the outskirts of the Milky Way. These stars are traveling so fast that they will escape the ...
Astronomers have discovered the most distant and Milky-Way-like galaxy yet. The disc galaxy was seen as it was just 700 million years after the Big Bang. Galaxies from that time are expected to appear ...