Our Milky Way Galaxy is one of three large galaxies in the Local Group of Galaxies. The other large galaxies are the Andromeda Galaxy, and Messier 33 (the 33rd entry in Charles Messier's catalog ...
Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on Leo P, a tiny galaxy with some big things to say about star formation.
Astronomers have discovered a group of dwarf galaxies that are unusually aligned in a near-straight line, with most of them rotating in the same direction. These peculiar features challenge ...
As it stands, proclamations of the impending demise of our galaxy appear greatly exaggerated." Eventually, all of the galaxies within the Local Group will collide and merge, but this process may ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
"Beyond the Milky Way lie billions of other galaxies, drifting a few million light years from one another like lily pads floating on the surface of a pond." — Timothy Ferris in Seeing in the ...