For most of human history, the Milky Way has been a hazy band of light, a backdrop rather than a map. Now, by reading the ...

For decades, astronomers have mapped the Milky Way using visible light, but much of our galaxy has remained hidden behind ...

This diagram shows a face-on view of stellar ‘families’ – clusters (dots) and co-moving groups (thick lines) of stars – within about 3000 light-years from the Sun, which is located at the centre of ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

The Milky Way galaxy, comprised of billions of stars, will be visible in the night sky until the end of May, particularly between the last quarter moon (May 20) and the new moon (May 30). Light ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. What you're looking at when the Milky Way is visible is the bright center of our galaxy with billions of ...

Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on Aug. 23. Head away from city lights in late August to see the dense core of the Milky Way ...

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