Astronomers have created the first detailed map of the Vela Supercluster, a massive structure concealed behind the Milky Way’s dense disk in the Zone of Avoidance. Spanning about 300 million ...

Scientists have mapped the extent of the Vela Supercluster for the first time, and determined that it is one of the largest ...

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A tiny object half a universe away, a scar in a stream of stars circling the Milky Way, and an unusual star cluster in a ...

Spring means it’s time to look up into our night sky and find one of the oldest objects in our galaxy: the M3 Cluster. NASA and other sky experts call this group of ancient stars “a truly distant ...

The winter sky is dominated by sparkling bright stars dotting the Milky Way. Among the myriad star clusters, many that stand out in the eyepiece steal visual observers’ hearts. The popular Messier ...

Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 light-years from Earth and straight into a cosmic time machine. Packed ...

If you could step back a few quadrillion miles and look at the Milky Way from the outside, you’d see a magnificent, glowing pinwheel of stars and gas, its arms curving majestically outward from a huge ...

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https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2025/01/The_best_Milky_Way_animation_by_Gaia This is a new artist’s animation of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data ...

New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...

Astronomers have unveiled the Vela-Banzi Supercluster, a vast structure hidden behind the Milky Way’s dense disk, stretching 300 million light-years and containing at least 20 galaxy clusters. Using ...