Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

Related: New view of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way hints at an exciting hidden ... For now, ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for ... future black hole images could be 50% sharper ...

Now here is the real trick. In order for the Milky Way to be sharp in the picture ... And I needed an f/2.8 lens that would produce sharp images wide open. Fortunately I had the Nikkor 14-24mm ...

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our universe ... In particular, Leavitt would scrutinize images of the Small ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... What was seen in the unique images stunned the researchers. While the stars and light ...

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...