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Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.
The Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years across, 1,000 light-years thick, and populated by 100 billion stars. That sounds ...
Discover everything you need to know about the Perseid Meteor Shower in the UAE, including optimal viewing dates, stargazing locations, and essential tips for catching the best celestial show of the ...
Astronomers have been baffled for decades by a cosmic deficit: the Milky Way’s calculated entourage of satellite galaxies is ...
Less famous but just as unforgettable, these state parks showcase iconic landscapes without the long lines at America’s ...
Astronomers believe that strange objects known as “dark dwarfs” may be hiding at the center of our galaxy, and discovering ...
Astronomers have discovered a 200-light-year-wide Giant Molecular Cloud dubbed the Midpoint cloud that seems to be feeding ...
Though it appears as a softly glowing cloud against the darker sky, what we see is so much more remarkable. This is the rim of our galaxy’s disk arching across the sky. Its hazy appearance, of course, ...
Known as the Hubble tension, the issue arises from conflicting measurements of how fast the universe is expanding. Now, a new ...
A computer simulation of stars near the centre of our galaxy offers an explanation for their mysteriously young appearance – ...
The Andromeda Galaxy, our Milky Way’s colossal neighbor, lies 2.5 million light-years away yet shines visibly in dark skies.
This is the first confirmed case of a star that survived an encounter with a supermassive black hole and came back for more.