The sun, galaxies and the milky way

Indian researchers say carvings found in Kashmir may be the oldest depiction of a dying star ever discovered (2018)

European Gaia spacecraft’s first major data dump — the most detailed 3D chart yet of our Galaxy — will keep researchers busy for decades... (2018)

For thousands of years, people have been puzzling over the milky strip that extends across the entire firmament. In the modern era, Galileo Galilei... (2018)

In a study published March 14 in The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers announced the discovery that all galaxies rotat... (2018)

Astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescopes and other telescopes have performed an accurate census of the number of galaxies i... (2018)

An international team of researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories have, for the first time, uncovered ... (2018)

The Sun is located about halfway out from the galactic center. But where is it vertically in the Milky Way's flat disk? (2019)

A team of astronomers used the Keck I telescope to measure the distance to an ancient galaxy. They deduced the target galaxy GN-z11 is not only the... (2020)

A team of Clemson University College of Science researchers, in collaboration with international colleagues, has reported the first definitive dete... (2020)

As the four craft exit our solar system, a 3D map of the Milky Way reveals which others they’re likely to visit tens of thousands of years on. (2019)