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A mesmerizing image of the Milky Way captured from a dark sky sanctuary in the Australian outback has captivated users on Reddit. The photograph of the Milky Way was taken by Oisin McDonnell, who ...

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This image shows the regions of the Milky Way mapped by the VISTA Variables in ... to sustain nuclear fusion like stars, causing them to cool and fade relatively quickly.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Summer is the best time of year for seeing the Milky Way from the northern hemisphere—and parts of August are the very best.

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...

"It marks an exciting step forward in our understanding of dark matter and the dynamics of the Milky Way." A perplexing "break" in a stream of stars around the Milky Way could be the result of ...

The Rigorer AR2 'Milky Way' colorway. / KICKS CREW The new 'Milky Way' colorway will mark Austin's third release from his signature AR2 line, with the theme being first introduced on the AR1.