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A new analysis of the EHT reveals that Sagittarius A*, the central black hole of the Milky Way, is spinning rapidly and ...
The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. "Milky Way season," when the galaxy's bright center becomes easier to see from Earth, typically runs ...
Researchers discover high-velocity clouds in the nearby spiral galaxy M83. These clouds are moving at speeds significantly different to the galaxy’s overall speed of rotation. The findings ...
For over a decade, researchers have suggested a high possibility of our Milky Way galaxy smashing into neighboring galaxy Andromeda around 5 billion years from now. The collision would merge the ...
When will the Milky Way collide with the Andromeda Galaxy? It's a common question because, for many years, astronomers have theorized that the two largest spiral galaxies in our cosmic ...
New evidence suggests that a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way called Ursa Major III is actually a star cluster.
It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy's core this summer.
A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years, has been anticipated by astronomers since 1912.
The Milky Way is our galaxy, a massive system made of stars, gas and dust. It is estimated to contain more than 100 billion stars and is about 100,000 light-years across.
The center of the Milky Way, which Dyches refers to as "the core," became visible in June and is expected to shine every ...
Milky Way is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky throughout the United States, ...