April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

Tromso sits at the centre of the northern lights’ oval, meaning that the lights can be visible even when activity is low.

On this day in 2024, the East Anglian Daily Times reported that an image of the Milky Way had been captured over one of Suffolk's most popular beaches. Jon Allard, an astronomical photographer, took ...

This discovery doesn’t just shed light on stars—it helps decode the history of the Milky Way and even the potential for life-supporting planets. A new study led by researchers at UNSW Sydney has ...

Led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara, the team has discovered that the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, may be getting torn apart by the gravitation pull ...

Nevertheless, there is still a lack of publicly available scientific data. The study was led by Laura Domine, a member of the Keto-Galileo Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University and a ...

Astronomers using ALMA have discovered a new type of long, narrow “slim filaments” in the Milky Way’s central molecular zone, revealing surprising details about shock-induced material circulation near ...

Since the days of Galileo Galilei, astronomy was about the detection of electromagnetic ... black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way and uses it for communication. They found that a ...

The Local Group, which includes the Milky Way, has a peculiar velocity of about 627 kilometers per second. In the νHDM model, this value fits nicely within the predicted range, due to the way ...

Credit: SciTechDaily.com For centuries, sailors have reported the eerie glow of “milky seas” — vast areas of ocean that ... forged from sea-faring ships of the 17th century all the way to spaceships ...

Scouts and fans alike noted the way he processes the game, and how, even without the puck, he’s often one step ahead of the play. And perhaps most encouraging for Canadiens supporters is that he doesn ...