For a few precious months each year, the brightest and most photogenic region of the Milky Way rises high enough above the horizon to create one of nature's most spectacular night-time displays. June ...

The astronomers used the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile to conduct the survey. CTIO is a program of ...

September may be a good time to catch a sight of the Milky Way's center while it's still easily visible in 2026 across the US ...

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Travel and adventure photography blog Capture the Atlas has announced the winners of its sixth annual Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest. The collection of winning images showcases the ...

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An unusual collection of stars may represent the remnants of a dwarf galaxy that the Milky Way devoured about 10 billion years ago. Astronomers have dubbed the ancient galaxy Loki, after the Norse god ...

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite galaxies—up to 100 more than we currently know. These elusive "orphan" galaxies have ...

September may be a good time to catch a sight of the Milky Way's center while it's still easily visible in 2026 in Oklahoma and across the country.