In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

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 ...

In just 30 seconds I captured the core of our galaxy, the Milky Way ... these photos. First up, the obvious: you need a smartphone. I won't go into step-by-step set-up details for each make ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble ... findings could also shed light on the Milky Way's future because our galaxy is predicted to potentially collide ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way ... as shown in the photo above. A - Clusters bright blue stars embedded within the galaxy, background ...

The telescope's size let it make images of very faint ... were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble's results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was moving away from ...