At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...

"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...

Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may ...

Astronomers rely on clear observations to study celestial objects, but cosmic dust alters what we see, making stars appear ...

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Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Some of the most massive and influential stars in the universe are OB stars. These blue giants, many times more massive than ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...