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Astronomers have discovered a rare 'polar ring galaxy' wrapped in a huge ribbon of hydrogen

Galaxies come in many shapes and sizes, from giant, slowly rotating ovals and fast-whirling spiral disks to faint ball-shaped blobs and dwarf irregulars. Most large, bright galaxies – including our own Milky Way – are orbited by a gang of much smaller dwarf galaxies.

The Conversation · Sep 13, 2023

Webb Telescope Peers at an Enigmatic Object Astronomers Call “The Brick”

There’s an unusual object near the Milky Way’s heart that astronomers call “The Brick,” a dark molecular cloud not forming as many stars as it should

Inverse · Sep 9, 2023

Astronomers discover first ‘bubble of galaxies’ a billion light-years wide

The bubble is 10,000 times wider than the Milky Way and located 820 million light-years from our own galaxy.

Al Jazeera · Sep 8, 2023

Our Milky Way galaxy was not always a spiral. Here's how it changed shape

A century-old mystery of how galaxies shift shapes has been solved by considering "survival of the fittest" collisions between cosmic titans also revealing the Milky Way was not always a spiral.

Space · Aug 14, 2023

Space photo of the week: Hubble captures one of our galaxy's oldest objects

This week, the Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning image of globular cluster NGC 6652 — a collection of some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

LiveScience · Aug 13, 2023

You'll travel nearly a trillion miles in your lifetime, even if you never leave home. Here's how.

Whether you're a frequent jet-setter or a couch potato, you travel much more than you think, thanks the motion of the Earth, sun, Milky Way galaxy and more.

Space · Aug 13, 2023

James Webb Space Telescope captures vibrant details of the Milky Way's galactic neighbor (photo)

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the Milky Way's neighbor, NGC 6822, glowing green and gold while punctuated by bright red and blue stars, revealing its lack of metal.

Space · Aug 2, 2023

Astrophotography in August 2023: what to shoot in the night sky this month

From two full moons and the Milky Way to the year’s best meteor shower and Saturn at opposition, here’s everything that's happening in the night sky this month

Digital Camera World · Jul 29, 2023

Milky Way galaxy's spiral arms revealed in stunning detail by chemical mapping

A chemical mapping technique has revealed details of the Milky Way's spiral arms that have, until now, been obscured. This allows astronomers to see new regions of our galaxy that hold an abundance of young stars.

Space · Jul 26, 2023

Billions of Years Ago, the Milky Way May Have Looked Like a Lentil — and It Could Again

A trove of images from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope have opened a window into the Milky Way's fate.

Inverse · Jul 25, 2023