But it is even stranger to realize that you are making two simultaneous journeys — around the sun and through the Milky Way. Just like the moon orbits Earth and our planet orbits the sun ...

It's hard to imagine that someday, the Milky Way galaxy will cease to exist. Looking up at the stars, it feels as though ...

dense cloud compressed our sun's protective field between two and three million years ago, leaving the Earth exposed to cosmic material Christian Thorsberg In an event that occurs only once every ...

The blood-like hue of the image is owed to a combination of mid-infrared light from Webb with visible and ultraviolet light ...

The Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years across, 1,000 light-years thick, and weighs as much as 1.2 trillion suns. Harmless asteroid may hitchhike around Earth for 4,000 years Imagine the Milky ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

How, when, and where to look to see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) after sunset this Thursday, Oct. 31, with sky charts, ...

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured an incredibly detailed timelapse of solar activity, revealing a roiling sun sprouting several massive loops of plasma. The Milky Way looks stunning above ...

The first ever image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way ... Earth, Sagittarius A* is a gargantuan tear in space-time that is 4.3 million times the mass of our sun.

This list of commonly confused terms in astronomy will help you better understand the cosmos and the common phenomena we see in the sky.

The arc of the Milky ... by Earth’s changing place in space. At precisely 01:04 UTC on Friday, September 23, 2022 it’s the fall or autumnal equinox. It marks the point when the midday Sun ...

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