Astronomers have had a rare glimpse into the heart of the Milky Way thanks to an errant star expelled from the galactic centre. At the middle of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole ...

This time, the NASA astronaut has captured a stunning image of the Milky Way from the International Space Station ... Crew Dragon capsule currently docked at the space station. The “star tracker” that ...

a 10-million-year-old open star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way that boasts an abundance of star-forming regions. A few young stars shine through dense ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a ... Some were gaseous, star-forming regions, such as the Orion nebula, or M42 ...

But what of smaller astronomical bodies, like the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy that is expected to collide with the Milky Way ... simulated the way a supermassive black hole in the ...

The observations detailed the extreme environment in the immediate vicinity of Sagittarius A* (pronounced A-star), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Sagittarius A* is ...

Toward the end of the 18th century, astronomer William Herschel used star counts to map out the Milky Way. He cataloged a thousand new nebulae and clusters of stars. He believed that the nebulae ...

This time, the NASA astronaut has captured a stunning image of the Milky Way from the International ... docked at the space station. The “star tracker” that Pettit refers to is a device ...