It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...

Sculptor—officially labeled NGC 253—is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It's located 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere's constellation Sculptor, and ...

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

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op ...

Now, this decade-long belief is being challenged by new research that suggests the Milky Way and Andromeda may not be on a collision course after all. The study, published today in Nature ...

Astronomers have released a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects. This is the most detailed map ever produced to date. Using the VISTA telescope at the ...

Scientists have unveiled the most detailed map of the Milky Way ever created, revealing over 1.5 billion objects. This groundbreaking discovery, 13 years in the making, has transformed our ...

Acknowledgement: Ignacio Toledo The wonders of our galaxy are on full display in a new infrared map of the Milky Way, showing a stunning 1.5 billion objects using data collected over 13 years.

You’ll have to wait until the sky is quite dark to begin our Milky Way Summer Road Trip, which means staying up or getting up at round 1 am. Then, facing the northeast, you’ll see a thumbnail ...

“I stare at this map a lot but am still always noticing new things about it.” ... * Editor’s Note (7/8/24): This sentence was edited after posting to correct the description of dust across ...

The team’s map reveals previously invisible details in a stretch of the central Milky Way 500 light-years wide. The colors represent different temperatures of interstellar dust: Green indicates ...