The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

Like other galaxies, the Milky Way is an isolated collection of stars and other material bound together by their common gravity. In addition to the 100 billion to 400 billion stars in our galaxy ...

Regardless of the Milky Way’s ultimate celestial fate, discovering and studying unique neighboring galaxies like J23453268−0449256 allows astronomers to learn more about our surprising ...

Galaxies that are not spiral, lenticular, or elliptical are called irregular galaxies.Irregular galaxies—such as the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds that flank our Milky Way—appear misshapen ...

The Milky Way – the galaxy that includes Earth and our solar system – is an example of a spiral galaxy. Spiral galaxies make up roughly 72 percent of the galaxies that scientists have observed ...

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark ...

Sebastian Verro also describes the Milky Way as a collection of discrete stars in his 1581 Physicorum Libri X, Book II, chapter 17, page 31: “We now refer to the glorious Galaxia, which is also ...

Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it could change our understanding of how galaxies form.

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