Palomar 5 is a unique star cluster that stretches across 30,000 light-years and is located about 80,000 light-years from ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has more than 150 known globular clusters; these objects are excellent tools for studying, for ...

The interferometer team, led by Steve Ertel, associate astronomer of Steward Observatory, observed several phenomena ...

University of Arizona astronomers have now produced the highest resolution direct images ever taken of a supermassive black ...

Supermassive black holes can have trillions of times more mass than the Sun, only exist in specific locations, and could ...

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

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Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly ...

Issues delivered straight to your door "I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." ...