By peering into the cosmic dance of stars, a team led by researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP ...

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile.

Astronomers have published a gigantic map of the Milky Way, unveiling discoveries that have changed their view of the galaxy “forever”. The infrared map contains more than 1.5 billion objects ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

"Black holes are not as destructive as we thought. It seems plausible that the detection of planets in the galactic center is ...

The star, WOH G64, is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, approximately 160,000 light-years away. "This is the first time we actually have a sharp image of a star ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. For the first time, astronomers have imaged a star located outside the Milky Way galaxy.