"The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," according to the Capture the Atlas ...

3 places where you can go see the Milky Way in New England In a July 23, 2014 photo, The Milky Way galaxy is seen on a moonless night from a cattle pasture in the Sand Hills of Nebraska.

A team of astronomers from England used that farthest point to determine that the diameter of the Milky Way is 1.9 million light-years, plus or minus 0.4 million light-years.

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy about 100,000 light-years wide that harbors several hundred billion stars. (Scientists aren't sure of the exact number.) It's tough to gauge the galaxy's growth ...

A new three-dimensional map of interstellar dust in the Milky Way wraps 180 degrees around the sky and extends over 16,000 light-years from ... Portsmouth, England, June 23, 2014. S.E. Sale et al.