The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of over 1.5 billion objects within our galaxy ... 8,600 full moons (as seen from Earth). For context, it contains ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky ... way around" the galaxy before coming together to make up our bodies here on Earth.

After 11 years in solar orbit, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has completed its mapping of our Milky Way Galaxy to a precision ... Milky Way's disk to map many more stars and ...

Toward the end of the 18th century, astronomer William Herschel used star counts to map out the Milky Way ... farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was moving away from Earth.