Andromeda is on a collision course with our galaxy. Now begins the best time of year to capture it with the naked eye. This is what Andromeda galaxy will look like in the night sky if it were brighter. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, and its neighbor …
There are tens, hundreds, or even 1000 times more bright galaxies at the edge of space-time (soon after the big bang) than astronomers had predicted, according to the James Webb Space Telescope, which has only been observing the sky for a few weeks. …
New research indicates that a highly odd structure has been discovered in the outer parts of our Milky Way galaxy. The research, which has been published for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, describes Cattail, a gas filament that &quo…
HD 140283 is a subgiant star estimated to be 14.46 billion years old. That may raise an eyebrow or two among those who recall the universe's estimated age of 13.77 billion years. This star, commonly referred to as the Methuselah star, seems to be …
The European Space Agency has revealed an astounding photograph captured by its Solar Orbiter, a sophisticated spacecraft built to examine the Sun from a much closer distance than Earth - and it's quite spectacular. You may view a zoomed-out versi…
Astronomers monitoring the sky recently received a major surprise. They discovered a massive galaxy around our own in an area previously unexplored. It popped up, apparently, out of nowhere. So how could the galaxy, dubbed as Crater 2, accomplish this…
The greatest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way has been developed by an international team of scientists, and the results have been published in the journal Science . Our planet isn't flat, and guess what? Neither is our galaxy. Researchers c…
This amazing video illustrates how incomprehensibly vast the universe is. As the videos plays, it takes you on a journey from the size of an astronaut all the way up to the entire observable universe. As the scale ramps up, from spacecraft to moons to…
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) used the iconic Hubble Space Telescope to take a stunning image of a massive galaxy (NGC 169) pulling cosmic material away from a smaller galaxy (IC 1559). ESA wrote: "As common as these interactions …
