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Space photo of the week: Hubble spies a dwarf galaxy
The irregular dwarf galaxy UGC 8091 is likely a building block of ‘grand design’ galaxies like our Milky Way.
How many times has the sun traveled around the Milky Way?
Our solar system has been orbiting the Milky Way's black hole heart for 4.6 billion years. But it is hard to pin down exactly how many trips around the galaxy our sun has made during that time.
James Webb telescope discovers dark secret of 'The Brick,' a gas cloud flipping assumptions about how stars are born
Peering deep into 'The Brick,' a dark, chaotic gas cloud at the heart of the Milky Way, the James Webb Space Telescope uncovered secrets that could shake up theories of star formation.
James Webb telescope reveals 'nursery' of 500,000 stars in the chaotic heart of the Milky Way
A dazzling new James Webb telescope image of the region near the Milky Way's central black hole reveals thousands of newborn stars among the "most extreme cosmic environment" in the galaxy.
Spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are surprisingly rare. Astronomers may finally know why.
The Supergalactic Plane we are located in doesn't have many spiral galaxies like the Milky Way. Astronomers think they finally know why galaxies like ours are so rare.
James Webb telescope uncovers mysterious Milky Way 'twin' in the early universe
A Milky Way doppleganger discovered in the early universe suggests some key physical ingredient is missing from cosmological models.
Mysterious 'fountain of youth' near Milky Way's central black hole is full of newborn stars that shouldn't exist
New James Webb Space Telescope observations might be able to explain why clusters of young stars keep turning up near the Milky Way’s central black hole.
James Webb telescope spots thousands of Milky Way lookalikes that 'shouldn't exist' swarming across the early universe
Thousands of disk galaxies like our own Milky Way were spotted in the early universe, where they shouldn't exist.
