Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way ...

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, which we see edge-on from our perspective on Earth, cuts a luminous swath across the image. The projection used in GigaGalaxy Zoom place the viewer in front of ...

Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night ... stupendous galaxy. For me the revelation came the first time ...

On an ancient Egyptian coffin lid painted more than 3,000 years ago, the sky goddess Nut arches over the dead. Her naked body ...