A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.
"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...
Astronomers have discovered the largest-scale structure in the known ... across which is over 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, according to a report in Live Science.
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA scientists have produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda ...
Toward the end of the 18th century, astronomer William Herschel used star counts to map out the Milky Way. He cataloged a ... at the time the largest in the world. He began taking photographic ...
This discovery now allows astronomers to witness the birth of a super star cluster in our neighboring galaxy. The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, is located nearly 160,000 light ...
Astronomers have identified what could be the largest structure ever observed in the known universe ... Spanning approximately 1.3 billion light-years—over 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way—it ...