Sometimes in astronomy, a simple question has a difficult answer. One such question is this: what is the mass of our galaxy?

"Our reconstruction shows that clumps of actively forming stars are surrounded by diffuse light from other unresolved stars," ...

It's the first time that scientists have witnessed clumps of stars assembling to form a galaxy like our own Milky Way and ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe - called Firefly Sparkle because ...

NASA astronauts on the ISS share images of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. It can be hard to see from Earth, but the view ...

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Recent findings by the EHT collaboration reveal strong, organized magnetic fields around Sagittarius A*, suggesting common ...

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Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky ...

Firefly Sparkle is a lightweight among the universe's galaxy contenders seen by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, but the discovery is no less important than more massive galaxies because of what it ...

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"These long-duration photographs look out a window on the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft toward the Magellanic Clouds, two ...