"The Milky Way has been an incredible physics laboratory, including for the physics of galaxy formation and the physics of dark matter," said Risa Wechsler, the Humanities and Sciences Professor and ...

with images from the DESI Legacy Surveys Sky Viewer. For years, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form and evolve. But new research suggests our galaxy ...

Astronomers capture the first detailed image of WOH G64, a star 2,000 times bigger than the Sun, as it nears its supernova ...

The signature, glowing core seen in visible-light images does not shine ... where 10 times as many stars are born as in the Milky Way galaxy—the Sombrero galaxy is not a particular hotbed ...

"What in the Milky Way caused these small, lower-mass satellites to have their star formation quenched?" The findings suggest our galaxy's evolutionary history is strikingly different, setting it ...

"The LMC is a survivor." In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully. Our galaxy's two closest neighbors are two dwarf galaxies known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC ...

Astronomers have captured the first detailed images of a star beyond our Milky Way galaxy on the verge of a supernova. The star, WOH G64, is surrounded by an egg-shaped cocoon of gas and dust ...

Milky Way strips LMC's gas halo with ram pressure. Hubble captures dramatic interaction between galaxies. LMC retains enough gas for new star formation.

Oct. 7, 2024 — Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disc galaxy seems as orderly as present-day galaxies, but we see it as it ...