A star cluster concealed behind thick clouds of dust near the Milky Way’s center may be 13.4 billion years old, placing it among the oldest known stellar groups in our galaxy. New observations have ...
Astronomers have determined that VVV CL001, a metal-poor globular cluster near the center of the Milky Way, is about 13.4 ...
Hubble has released a new image of Messier 30, known as M30, a globular cluster about 27,500 light-years away in the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For a few months each year, the Milky Way's center becomes one of the most stunning cosmic displays visible on Earth. But time is ...
The Herschel Space Observatory has revealed for the first time the entirety of a cold dusty gas ring near the center of the Milky Way. But there is an enigma to this discovery—the ring appears to be ...
Get ready, stargazers: The Milky Way could be coming to a sky near you. Our galaxy is positively teeming with billions of stars that become bright and vibrant in the cosmos at certain times of the ...
A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this strange place holds thousands of newborn stars, huge clouds of gas, and ...
An international team of astrophysicists has discovered something wholly new, hidden in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. In the early 1980s, Northwestern University's Farhad Yusef-Zadeh discovered ...
The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is spinning so quickly it is warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football, according to a new study. That ...