The core of the Milky Way in Sagittarius low in the south over ... it's impossible to get a face-on view of it. Instead, we see it as an arc of light across the night sky. It's one of the most ...

However, there’s a catch—to see the Milky Way, you’ll need very dark skies ... Barentine used to manage the International ...

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

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

Every star that you see in the sky is part of the same enormous galaxy. Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars ...

Nature of the nebulae In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed ... astronomers started to see that the nebulae were a mixed ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes.