NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe - called Firefly Sparkle because ...

As the sun rises, the Dragon spacecraft is immersed in light. The Milky Way is our home galaxy. From the outside, it would look like a big spiral with swirling arms, but we’re in the midst of it.

Firefly Sparkle is still in the process of assembling and has a mass equivalent to about 10 million solar masses.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted "Firefly Sparkle," a tiny, young galaxy from just 600 million years after the ...

Dec. 11, 2024 — Stunning new photographs by a team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks remarkably similar to a young Milky Way. The extraordinary images give us an ...

NASA image shows LMC as it passes through the gaseous halo of the Milky Way galaxy. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning dance happening in the outer reaches of our Milky Way galaxy.

More information: Yao-Yuan Mao et al, The SAGA Survey. III. A Census of 101 Satellite Systems around Milky Way–mass Galaxies, The Astrophysical Journal (2024).DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad64c4 Marla ...

Blizzard releases a new update for Heroes of the Storm that fixes some bugs and adjusts some abilities for D.Va, Samuro, and other characters.

A mesmerizing image of the Milky Way captured from a dark sky sanctuary in the Australian outback has captivated users on Reddit. The image was captured at the Arkaroola International Dark Sky ...

According to the study, this structure of gas surrounding the dwarf galaxy is only a tenth of the size of comparable galaxies. Most of it has apparently been pushed away by our Milky Way ...

which were previously thought to reside within our Milky Way galaxy, were located outside it. These objects were actually the Andromeda and Messier 33 galaxies, the closest large galaxies to our ...

Shapley used the period-luminosity relationship to estimate distances to other Cepheids across the Milky Way. This is how Shapley reached his estimate for our galaxy's size. But, in order for ...