Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

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In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in observations..

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

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Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for ... to be one of the Webb Space Telescope’s ...