His photos appear frequently in National Geographic magazine. It was a grand sight to see, the Milky Way stretching across the sky behind Owachomo Bridge. It was a natural subject for the opening ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...

And thankfully, 4 billion years represents a time scale that none of us, our children, or even our great ... what exists beyond outer space), the Milky Way and Andromeda's own gaseous halos ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now ...