The ‘Storm’ in the Galactic Center
The ‘Storm’ in the Galactic Center. The heart of the Milky Way in Radio from MeerKAT.
How many Stars are there in Space?
Look up at the sky on a clear night, and you’ll see thousands of stars – about 6,000 or so. But that’s only a tiny fraction of
The Galaxy Tree
First came the trees. In the town of Salamanca, Spain, the photographer noticed how distinctive a grove of oak trees looked after being pruned.
An Enormous Mosaic of the Milky Way
Twelve years and 1,250 hours of exposure time spend Finnish photographer J-P Metsavainio to create this detailed project of the Milky Way.
Kepler found New Planets better than Earth
The Kepler Telescope was built for one purpose: To look at a certain patch in the Milky Way in search of exoplanets.
Stellar Motion for the next 1.6 million Years
This is the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way ever made, created from data collected by ESA’s Gaia observatory.
Fast Radio Bursts from our Galaxy observed for the first time
Astronomers report that they have observed fast radio bursts in the Milky Way, our own galaxy, for the first time.
There are about 300 million Habitable Planets in the Milky Way
Scientists using data from the Kepler space telescope, estimated that there could be as many as 300 million potentially habitable planets in our galaxy.
Zooming to the Center of the Milky Way
This video zooms into a view of the center of our Milky Way galaxy, and ends on a new photo obtained by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam)…
Astronomers discover South Pole Wall
Astronomers discover South Pole Wall, an enormous cosmic structure stretching 700 million light-years of space across, containing hundreds of thousands of galaxies.