Browsing: Milky Way

The milky way and the desert at Al Quaa. Image Credit: Wikipedia During the whole of August 2026, the night…

Rubin Observatory stacked hundreds of images from its 3.2-billion-pixel camera; the final view contains over half a million galaxies and…

2 min readJul 15, 2026 06:15 AM IST First published on: Jul 15, 2026 at 06:15 AM IST Sugar, it…

A striking new image released by NASA offers a rare, close up look at one of the busiest star forming…

3 min readJun 29, 2026 06:25 AM IST First published on: Jun 29, 2026 at 06:25 AM IST Dark nights…

For a few precious months each year, the brightest and most photogenic region of the Milky Way rises high enough…

Image: European Southern Observatory Close to the centre of our galaxy, there exists an immense molecular cloud known as Sagittarius…

According to Kepler observations, the most abundant kind of planets in the Milky Way is the super-Earths. These planets are…

Astronomers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) – working with colleagues from Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (France), Swinburne…

BENGALURU: In the vast hierarchy of the universe, the smallest galaxies are often overlooked. But a new study now suggests…