While our own Milky Way galaxy is already home to billions of stars, it is far from the largest. This 4K documentary takes you on a journey to discover the 10 most gigantic galaxies ever observed.

Astronomers have captured the first zoomed-in image of a star beyond the Milky Way. The historic image reveals a dying behemoth star wrapped in a death shroud of gas about to explode.

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken a detailed look at the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sgr A*, finding it endlessly blowing bubbles.

The Milky Way formed around 13.5 billion years ago, but it’s not possible to travel back in time to see exactly how it happened. Studies of the Galaxy’s ancient stars 1 offer some clues, as do ...