Milky Way, black hole and James Webb Space Telescope

"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two galaxies interacting due to gravity: NGC 5996 (the large spiral galaxy) and ...
Arizona's dark skies are a haven for astronomers and photographers. Some communities are fighting to keep them that way.
Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...
A team of astrophysicists have found flares of light in Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky ...