Hubble’s famous images of galaxies typically show elegant spirals or soft-edged ellipses. But these neat forms are only representative of large galaxies. Smaller galaxies like the dwarf irregular ...

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Despite being the place we call home, much about the Milky Way galaxy remains a mystery. That's partly due to its size — at 100,000 light years across, it's unfathomably massive, containing hundreds ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Astronomers have suspected that magnetic fields in space play a key role in the makeup of galaxy clusters – the basic building blocks of the universe. Now, an Ohio University-led ...

Two giant, mysterious bubbles spew from the Milky Way’s heart, and now it appears the bubbles may have doubles. Previously, researchers had seen an X-ray arc above the galactic plane (SN: 7/8/20). But ...

"We were not looking for it. It is so huge that it spills to the edges of the sector of the sky that we were analyzing." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Astronomers have discovered a bubble of gas orbiting our galaxy's black hole. Earlier this year, astronomers brought us our first image of Sagittarius A (or Sgr. A* for short). The image was blurry, ...