Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny ...

Using deep imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope, they observed a galaxy bearing a striking resemblance to our ...

Astronomers have completed the most comprehensive census of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to date, providing the clearest ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds clues about when it formed and what the galaxy was like at the time. Over ...

What can the gamma ray light emitted by the Milky Way Galaxy teach scientists about the existence of dark matter? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Letters hopes to address as a ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led by Dr. Vivian Tan, who completed her doctorate at York University under the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The dark matter distribution of a Milky Way mass halo in a Lambda-cold dark matter (LCDM) ...

Protostellar jets were detected for the first time using ALMA in the Milky Way’s outer region, showing that star formation works similarly in distant, low-metallicity regions, whereas the chemistry ...

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