The sun and the planets around it form part of the Milky Way Galaxy. "The Milky Way is a large barred spiral galaxy. All the ...
WOH G64 is what's known as a red giant, a star nearing the end of its life, running out of hydrogen fuel. Through this ...
Scientists announced Thursday that they had taken the first zoomed-in image of a dying star beyond our galaxy. The star is ...
For decades, astronomers have puzzled over the intense heat and persistence of the fiery hot gas surrounding the Milky Way.
Edwin Hubble's revelation in 1924 that the Andromeda Nebula was, in fact, an 'island universe,' was a pivotal moment in our ...
In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully.
Scientists may have finally hit upon the possible mysterious sources that have pumped heat and kept alive the fiery hot gas ...
Astronomers have captured the first zoomed-in image of a star beyond the Milky Way. The historic image reveals a dying ...
Located a staggering 160,000 light-years from us, the star WOH G64 was imaged thanks to the impressive sharpness offered by ...
A new study claims to have discovered about 200 ancient stars in the Milky Way’s halo, the most ... [+] distant of which is more than a million light-years from Earth. That’s almost half the ...
Astronomers have taken a zoomed-in photo of a star outside the Milky Way for the first time, the European Southern Observatory announced in a statement Thursday.