Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...

(CNN) - Astronomers say they have spotted a dazzling light show from the Milky Way’s black hole. The astronomers spotted the activity using the James Webb Space Telescope. Researchers say they ...

New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have a front-row seat to some of the most extraordinary sights in the ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a ... at the Mount Wilson Observatory. Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector ...

The objects that follow include targets for the Milky Way photography enthusiast, the visual observer with plenty of aperture, and even those with no equipment at all. It takes dark skies to find ...

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Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of our home Milky Way galaxy. It has a mass equal to billions of suns and has an accretion disk made up of gas and dust surrounding it.

The observations detailed the extreme environment in the immediate vicinity of Sagittarius A* (pronounced A-star), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Sagittarius A* is about ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. They found the ...

A curious connection between an ancient supernova and virus diversification in one of Earth's biggest lakes means that crazy cosmic events may have had more influence on our planet than we thought ...