A new low-frequency radio image offers the most comprehensive view yet of the Milky Way’s southern sky. Astronomers at the International Center of (ICRAR) have produced the most detailed low-frequency ...

Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and simulations is forcing astronomers to admit that many of those origin ...

Our understanding of the galaxy has advanced with every leap in the number of stars. From early observations to more and more advanced space and ground-based telescopes, each milestone has revealed ...

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Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with a straight ...

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Chinese astronomers have revealed new findings about the size of the Milky Way galaxy, suggesting it’s significantly larger than previously thought. Their research, published in the prestigious ...

Abendano, the team has built a sample of molecular clouds in this galaxy by analyzing the data from the Combined Array for ...