who led a project to capture the most detailed infrared map ever of the Milky Way galaxy. “We made so many discoveries.” The new map, published today in Astronomy & Astrophysics, covers an ...

I immediately drove home to grab my Atlas pack full of cold weather ... where I had planned to capture the Milky Way rising within the frame. Although the aurora dimmed slightly, the cave was ...

Edward Emerson Barnard's Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way was originally published in two volumes in 1927. Together these volumes contained a wealth of information, including ...

Japanese astronomers are among an international research team that successfully captured the first image of a black hole at the center of the Milky Way ... impossible to capture an image of ...

This extraordinary achievement provides an unprecedented view of the final stages of a star’s life beyond the Milky Way. WOH G64, one of the largest stars ever observed, is over 2,000 times the ...

Astronomers have captured the first detailed images of a star beyond our Milky Way galaxy on the verge of a supernova. The star, WOH G64, is surrounded by an egg-shaped cocoon of gas and dust ...

It took Finnish photographer JP Metsavainio 12 years and 1,200 hours of exposure to create this panorama of the Milky Way. Not only did he capture the entire galaxy, but also 20 million stars that ...

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) streaks across the sky on October ... albeit from a dark sky destination — will be the Milky Way, which flows through the “Summer triangle” stars that ...