A UBC Okanagan-led research project has given a group of international scientists their clearest view yet of the Milky Way's ...
Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...
The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including six visible planets, an annular solar eclipse, and the Milky Way’s ...
The next Milky Way supernova may not surprise astronomers at all. According to a recent study available on the arXiv preprint server, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, ahead of its decade-long Legacy ...
Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be about 10 million times the sun’s mass.
Deneb, Vega and Altair are among the brightest stars in the night sky.
We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large ...
A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...
At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...
Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...
A new low-frequency radio image offers the most comprehensive view yet of the Milky Way’s southern sky. Astronomers at the International Center of (ICRAR) have produced the most detailed low-frequency ...
Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...