Astronaut’s Remarkable Image Captures Milky Way Beyond Earth’s Horizon
The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth.
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NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!'
"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...
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An Astronaut Just Captured a Jaw-Dropping Photo of Earth and the Milky Way from Space
NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, photo of the ...
NASA Gears Up for Weekend Launch Carrying Missions to Study the Milky Way and Sun
A SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions, is scheduled to lift off on Sunday at 10:09 p.m. ET.
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Astronaut’s Stunning Photo Captures the Milky Way Like Never Before
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have a front-row seat to some of the most extraordinary sights in the ...
Image: The Milky Way on the horizon
NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, image of the ...
Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way
Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...
How astronomers make deep maps of the Milky Way
Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful ...
Look for the winter Milky Way and zodiacal light in March
In March the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga fill the southern sky stretching all the way to zenith — the point directly overhead. Directly ...
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Does The Milky Way Move Like A Spinning Top?
An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...
Astrophysicists surprised by light show around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole
Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...