The long-proposed Milky Way and Andromeda galactic merger might not be as certain as astronomers previously believed.

while the majestic Milky Way core dominates the background. Whenever I venture out to capture the night sky, I’m filled with a sense of humility and gratitude for my existence. It’s as if my ...

The result: an excess of 79 neutrinos over the background, with a statistical ... But what about our Milky Way galaxy? The denser portions of the Milky Way's inner galactic plane are the most ...

An artist’s impression of the Gaia spacecraft, the Milky Way in background. Illustration: Spacecraft: ESA/ATG medialab; Milky Way: ESA/Gaia/DPAC. Acknowledgement: A. Moitinho. Evidence of the ...

We had to use clever techniques to sort those 378 orbiting galaxies from thousands of objects in the background. It’s a real ...

Our majestic Milky Way and its colossal tapestry of some ... which allowed them to better predict the background behind each star. It helped to mitigate the effects of nebulae and crowded ...

Once the AI was accurate enough, it analyzed data for 2 million red giant stars in the Milky Way. Why red giants? Their brightness and metallicities stood out, and in the background were the stars ...

A lonely Milky Way Analogue galaxy, too massive for its wall. The background image shows the distribution of dark matter (green and blue) and galaxies (here seen as tiny yellow dots) in a thin ...

Three ways to map the Milky Way In these three views ... promising cascades in the hundreds of thousands of meaningless, background events that IceCube has collected. Kurahashi Neilson decided ...