Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is of a respectable size. It got this big over its 13 billion years of life by also absorbing ...

Scientists have uncovered the true boundary of the Milky Way’s star-forming region using stellar “age mapping.” They found a ...

Astronomers have finally identified where the Milky Way’s star-making activity fades, uncovering a long-sought boundary in ...

The Milky Way is surrounded by a halo of hot gas, which is warmer to the south than the north. This happens because an internal combustion engine-like effect compresses the southern part of the gas ...

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Astronomers may have discovered remnants of a lost dwarf galaxy called “Loki” hidden within the Milky Way.

What you're looking at when the Milky Way is visible is the bright center of our galaxy with billions of stars. Because visibility from Earth depends on the latitude, the further south you go, the ...

Dark centre? A simulated version of the Milky Way galaxy. (Courtesy: AIP/ A. Khalatyan) Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation ...

A recent paper reveals we're almost certainly going to collide with a galaxy in the next couple billion years, but it's not the one we thought. Reading time 2 minutes For over a decade, researchers ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. What you're looking at when the Milky Way is visible is the bright center of our galaxy with billions of ...

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