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The Milky Way over the Maui Space Surveillance Complex. Maui's climate provides virtually year-round viewing conditions made possible due to the dry, clean air and minimal scattered light from surface ...

The Milky Way galaxy is like a gigantic ocean gyre or eddy that spins and wobbles around its center. But our home galaxy also has a colossal wave rippling through it, pulling and pushing an ocean of ...

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...

The Milky Way is not the neat, flat pinwheel many of us learned about in school. Fresh data from precision star maps now show our home galaxy as a warped, rippling disc that appears to twist and ...

Time is running out to see the iconic band of stars that comprise the center of the Milky Way. Our galaxy is positively teeming with billions of billions of stars that routinely become bright and ...

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite galaxies—up to 100 more than we currently know. These elusive "orphan" galaxies have ...

What can the gamma ray light emitted by the Milky Way Galaxy teach scientists about the existence of dark matter? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Letters hopes to address as a ...

Time is running out to catch one of the most breathtaking sights in the night sky: the center of the Milky Way. The heart of our galaxy, made up of billions of stars, shines brightest during warmer ...