with the Milky Way appearing as a long, thin strip with a bulge at the center. SEE ALSO: Gorgeous rose-colored Hubble photo is your daily reminder that space is super cool "This is a bit of a ...

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The Milky Way's supermassive black hole ... this vast vent of bright X-rays exists where hot and cool gas perpetually collide. It's unclear how often Sgr A* is spitting out gas to fill up this ...

In March the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga fill the southern sky stretching all the way to zenith — the point directly overhead. Directly ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of our home Milky Way galaxy. It has a mass equal to billions of suns and has an accretion disk made up of gas and dust surrounding it.

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number of faint stars. For the next 300 years, astronomers assumed that the ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number of faint stars. For the next 300 years, astronomers assumed that the ...