In the background, the gassy, oblong Milky Way is visible. The Milky Way is seen edge-on, meaning that the photo looks across the galaxy’s diameter. The photo was taken with a camera using low ...

We had to use clever techniques to sort those 378 orbiting galaxies from thousands of objects in the background. It’s a real needle-in-the-haystack problem.” The Milky Way has four observable ...

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful tools is something called 21 cm radiation. Hydrogen, the most abundant ...

"Because of the Milky Way's own giant halo ... Researchers observed the LMC's halo by using background light from 28 bright quasars, the brightest parts of active galactic nuclei, as "lighthouses ...

The enormous size of the Milky Way glows in the background over the Earth's curve, providing the massive scale of our home galaxy and a stunning view of our home planet from space. Don Pettit's ...

Here's how his beautiful picture of the Milky Way seen above a mountain in Norway looks on the new iPhone: Haagensen took the photo that will be preloaded onto millions of new iPhones last ...