the SMC resembles a piece of the Milky Way that has broken off, though in reality it's much farther away than any part of our ...

Astronomers have revealed that "space tornadoes" are swirling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*. The unexpected discovery came via observations of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...

SEE ALSO: Webb telescope finds Milky Way black hole never stops strobing light The Meerkat radio telescope in South Africa puts the Webb image in context by showing Sagittarius C in an environment ...

Back in the 19 nineties, astronomers started to see growing evidence that the universe ... radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would pulse every two hours, like a cosmic ...

Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond ... might be able to see us.