"Our reconstruction shows that clumps of actively forming stars are surrounded by diffuse light from other unresolved stars," ...

Shapley used the period-luminosity relationship to estimate distances to other Cepheids across the Milky Way. This is how Shapley reached his estimate for our galaxy's size. But, in order for ...

According to the study, this structure of gas surrounding the dwarf galaxy is only a tenth of the size of comparable galaxies. Most of it has apparently been pushed away by our Milky Way ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga. The Large Magellanic Cloud, also called the LMC, is one of the Milky ...

Firefly Sparkle is a lightweight among the universe's galaxy contenders seen by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, but the discovery is no less important than more massive galaxies because of what it ...

NASA image shows LMC as it passes through the gaseous halo of the Milky Way galaxy. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning dance happening in the outer reaches of our Milky Way galaxy.