Latest Galactic astronomy Stories
A leggy cosmic creature comes out of hiding in this new infrared view from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
Cobbling together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece.
Herschel has delivered spectacular vistas of cold gas clouds lying near the plane of the Milky Way, revealing intense, unexpected activity.
Less than two months after they inaugurated the worldâ€™s largest telescope, University of Florida astronomers have used one of the worldâ€™s most advanced telescopic instruments to gather images of the heavens.
The first of three images of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project â€” a new magnificent 800-million-pixel panorama of the entire sky as seen from ESOâ€™s observing sites in Chile â€” has just been released online.
Astronomers using the infrared capability of the U.S.
Astronomers have at last uncovered newborn stars at the frenzied center of our Milky Way galaxy.
New calculations by Ryan O'Leary and Avi Loeb (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) suggest that hundreds of massive black holes, left over from the galaxy-building days of the early universe, may wander the Milky Way.
The "Catâ€™s Eye" nebula, or NGC 6543, is a well-studied example of a "planetary nebula."
Milky Way Galaxy -- The Milky Way (a translation of the Latin Via Lactea, in turn derived from the Greek Galaxia (gala, galactos means "milk")) is a hazy band of white light across the night sky formed by billions of stars in the disc of our galaxy. The Milky Way appears brightest in the direction of Sagittarius, where the galactic centre lies. Relative to the celestial equator, the Milky Way passes as far north as the constellation of Cassiopeia and as far south as the constellation of...
- A transitional zone between two communities containing the characteristic species of each.