Never-before-seen details of the Milky Way's spiral arms have been revealed through chemical mapping. This pioneering technique, called chemical cartography, has unveiled new regions of our galaxy's ...
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First Vera Rubin Observatory image reveals hidden structure as long as the Milky Way trailing behind a nearby galaxy — Space photo of the week
First-light images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have revealed a 163,000-light-year stream of stars emanating from the ...
The clashing galaxies NGC 4568 (bottom) and NGC 4567 (top) as seen by the Gemini North telescope in Hawai‘i A 100-year-old mystery surrounding the "shape-shifting" nature of some galaxies has been ...
Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...
A century-old mystery of how galaxies change shapes has been solved by considering 'survival of the fittest' collisions between cosmic titans. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...
Every 200 million years, high-energy comets may pelt our planet as it passes through our galaxy's spiral arms. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...
St. Louis, Mo. — For decades, astronomers have been blind to what our galaxy, the Milky Way, really looks like. After all, we sit in the midst of it and can’t step outside for a bird’s eye view. Now, ...
The method overcomes the challenges of dust that block the view of some of the Milky Way's stars. Hawkins’ model superimposed over a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory illustration of the Milky Way. Red ...
Brecher's image reveals spectacular detail in the spiral arms of the 14,000- light-year wide galaxy, where dense dust lanes ...
ESO astronomers have used the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope to capture an image of NGC 6744. This impressive spiral galaxy lies about 30 million light-years away in the southern ...
Mighty forces beyond the solar system billions of years ago might have shaped much of the land beneath our feet today. A study recently published in the journal Geology proposes that Earth’s ...
In a bizarre geological twist of fate, researchers report that the very continents on which we humans call home were likely a byproduct of four-billion-year-old giant Earth impactors incredibly ...
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