Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society ...
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
Generally, the nights of and near the new moon – when the moon is not illuminated – are better for most stargazing experiences. Here are the dates of new moons this year.
Astronomers have released the most comprehensive photograph of the Andromeda galaxy, which contains over 200 million stars.
Two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 collide, forming carbon-rich dust. Webb captured 17 expanding dust shells, revealing ...
He calculated a distance of 930,000 light-years, which is less than half the real distance of ... that Shapley measured for the Milky Way. Messier 31 was not a spiral nebula. It was a spiral galaxy.
Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, cosmic 'ghost towns,' offer new insights into the early universe and star formation.
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its sky-scanning phase, racking up ...
Collaboration has achieved the highest-resolution Earth-based observations to date, detecting light at 345 GHz from the ...
Space exploration is no longer the domain of countries alone. It’s now rapidly becoming the domain of private interests.
Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across the universe. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ...