In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

A black hole might conjure images of a dark, quiet void, but never-seen-before images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope reveals the centre of the Milky Way looks more like fireworks.

The astronomical panorama is a major accomplishment because Andromeda is the “closest” large galaxy to ours, at a distance of 2.5 million light years away — equal to the diameter of the Milky Way disk ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

The Andromeda Galaxy is a time capsule of the early universe, containing stars and other celestial objects that date back to the dawn of time. On a clear, dark ... with the Milky Way, resulting ...

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way ... galaxy M32, that may be the residual core of a galaxy that once collided with Andromeda E - Dark ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way. Measuring 3.3 million light-years from end-to-end, the cosmic megastructure ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way ... on a dark night. Galaxies come in a very wide range of sizes and masses. Measuring a galaxy ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed ... to the naked eye from a dark site. The Andromeda galaxy, then known as the ...