The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, which we see edge-on from our perspective on Earth, cuts a luminous swath across the image. The projection used in GigaGalaxy Zoom place the viewer in front of ...

Two images of the Milky Way galaxy. The top is captured with visible light and the bottom is the first-ever captured with neutrinos. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy ... fields showing in this composite image of Centaurus A. They're shown as streamlines over an image of the galaxy taken at visible and submillimeter wavelengths ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...

Using Webb’s images and data, the researchers concluded that the Firefly Sparkle had the same mass as our Milky Way galaxy would have if we could “turn back time” to weigh it as it was assembling. For ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way ... a galaxy. Visualisation of the gas shroud of starburst galaxy IRAS 08339+6517. What was seen in the unique images ...

Led by researchers at Macquarie University and Italy's National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF), a portion of our galaxy has been imaged in detail so great, we may be able to answer long-standing ...