Baby star near the black hole in the middle of our Milky Way: It exists after all
An international team of researchers under the leadership of Dr Florian Peißker at the University of Cologne's Institute of Astrophysics has discovered a…
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A mysterious object is being dragged into the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s…
For two decades, scientists have observed an elongated object named X7 near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way and wondered what it…
The Milky Way may be spawning many more stars than astronomers had thought
The Milky Way is churning out far more stars than previously thought, according to a new estimate of its star formation rate.
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James Webb telescope captures a Milky Way-like galaxy a billion light-years away
Astronomers at the European Space Agency (ESA) used the James Webb Space Telescope to capture an image of a spiral galaxy that resembles our home, the Milky…
Footprints of galactic immigration uncovered in Andromeda galaxy: The Dark Energy Spectroscopic…
Over the course of billions of years, galaxies grow and evolve by forging new stars and merging with other galaxies through aptly named "galactic…
At Last, the Milky Way Gets a Better Close Up
After two years of data-taking and number-crunching, a team of astronomers has dropped a snapshot of, quite literally, cosmic proportions. It’s chock-full of…
Billions of celestial objects revealed in gargantuan survey of the Milky Way: Colossal astronomical…
Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects --…
Astronomers Discover Milky Way Galaxy’s Most-Distant Stars
Astronomers have detected in the stellar halo that represents the Milky Way's outer limits a group of stars more distant from Earth than any known within our…
Astronomers find the most distant stars in our galaxy halfway to Andromeda: A search for variable…
Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way's stellar halo. The most distant of these stars is…
James Webb telescope reveals Milky Way-like galaxies in young universe
New images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars -- elongated features of stars stretching from…