Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

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Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

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It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear autumn night as ... This implies it has a more active recent star-formation and interaction history than the Milky Way. "Andromeda's a train ...

For the next 300 years, astronomers assumed that the Milky Way was ... distant the star is, the fainter it appears. Hubble worked hard, taking images of spiral nebulae every clear night and ...