The Milky Way galaxy, home to our solar system, is a vast structure. It contains billions of stars and a supermassive black hole. The galaxy is constantly rotating and growing by absorbing smaller ...

The aerial shot, Bird's Eye View of the Hunt, earned Mark Ian Cook the title Mangrove Photographer of the Year. The image ...

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Columnist Justice B. Hill remembers the magic of starry nights from his youth and mourns how light and air pollution have ...

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Perseus Moving Group, also known as the Alpha Persei Cluster, is a cluster of 500 stars, offering a glimpse of our Sun’s ...

Discover why Big Bend National Park is a top destination for stargazing, with clear skies and stunning Milky Way views.

At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...

An international team of scientists have provided an unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur spread between the stars using ...

Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.

The Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years across, 1,000 light-years thick, and populated by 100 billion stars. That sounds ...

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