The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, maybe even a grand design spiral galaxy. We can't be sure from…
A new study indicates that, contrary to what has been previously argued, galaxies like our own may be the most…
When you look up and see the Milky Way, you're gazing into the heart of our home galaxy. What, exactly,…
Astronomers have spotted, for the first time, a dense galactic core blazing with the light of millions of newborn stars…
We keep saying this: the universe is more complex than it appears. Conventional thinking in galaxy research postulates that spiral galaxies…