The best time to view the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way, our home galaxy ...
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...
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Astronomers reveal how the Milky Way’s violent youth forged a calmer spiral giant
Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...
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Oak Ridge grad, along with NASA artist, created a map of the Milky Way
In Part 2 of his story, Benita Albert tells of astronomer Bob Benjamin's career, including teaching and now being a NASA ...
American space agency NASA announced the first major science program for the Nancy Grace Roman telescope, aside from the ...
A 14%-illuminated waxing crescent moon will hang low in the southwest tonight, soon after sunset, still in Capricorn, with ...
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Comet Lemmon and Milky Way spotted over Hawaii | Space photo of the day for Dec. 12, 2025
Comet Lemmon was discovered in January 2025 and made its closest approach to Earth in late October 2025. But by November 2025 ...
How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...
New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal galactic rule—it's just one of many possible evolutionary paths. By recreating ...
On Dec. 15, 1612, the Andromeda galaxy was seen through a telescope for the first time by a German astronomer named Simon ...
The mass of the Milky Way is one of the most fundamental measurements astronomers can make about our galactic home. However, despite decades of intense effort, even the best available estimates of the ...
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