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The three blue supergiants forming Orion’s Belt are prominent winter sky markers, visible worldwide and aligned along the Milky Way, according to Space.com.

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A black hole at the centre of a galaxy 665 million light years away is continuing to emit a jet of matter six years after ...

This faraway, ancient ball of stars may have been captured from another galaxy that passed too close to the Milky Way.

On a clear night, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy look like close neighbors. In space, they really are.

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...

For years, astronomers have observed the strange motion of Andromeda, the Milky Way’s closest large galactic neighbor. While ...