A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...
The circumgalactic medium, a vast gaseous halo surrounding galaxies, could be crucial to the evolution of star-forming ...
Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* Supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy - Milky Way vs ...
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies ...
Death Valley National Park offers some of the best stargazing in America, with DarkSky International having designated it as a Gold Tier Dark Sky Park.
This image of twin bubbles stretching 25,000 light-years from the galactic center was captured by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray ...
One of the first constellations amateur astronomers come to recognize, the Queen offers observers many worthy sights.
Carl Sagan famously said, "We are made of star-stuff," but even he didn't realize just how far that star stuff traveled ...
Galanti and his colleagues had previously found evidence of axion-like particles in light from distant blazars – extremely active galaxies that blaze with light. But the brightest gamma-ray explosion ...
New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...