Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A new study claims to have discovered about 200 ancient stars in the Milky Way’s halo, the most ... [+] distant of which is ...

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The name for our galaxy comes from the ancient Greek words for ‘milk’ or ‘milky’. They could only see it as a bright band of ...

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Astronomers have taken a zoomed-in photo of a star outside the Milky Way for the first time, the European Southern Observatory announced in a statement Thursday.

Astronomers have taken a superdetailed, zoomed-in photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud's "behemoth star." The stunning image, ...

Welcome to the December night sky. This is the month of the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere. This year, it is on ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's brand-new image of the Sombrero Galaxy casts this city of stars in a new light — ...

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