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Astronomy professor Mia de los Reyes is leading the charge to have Milky Way's closest galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud, renamed, arguing that slave-owning, murderous explorer Ferdinand Magellan did not discover the systems.

A look at the night sky at any time of year will reveal a faint band of light stretching across the sky -- our solar system's home, the Milky Way. How much do we really know about it?

The telescope captured two neighbouring clouds of cosmic dust and gas, the giant red nebula NGC 2014 and a smaller blue nebula nearby called NGC 2020.

Planets grow in rotating disks of dust and gas around forming stars, some of which can subsequently collide in giant impacts after the gas component is removed from the disk1–3. Monitoring programmes with the warm Spitzer mission have recorded substantial and rapid changes in mid-infrared output for several stars, interpreted as variations in the surface area of warm, dusty material ejected by planetary-scale collisions and heated by the central star: for example, NGC 2354–ID8 (refs....

Slow-moving stars at the Milky Way’s outskirts suggest our galaxy may be far lighter than previously believed, with profound implications for dark matter

March 2025 - 12 days With unique geographical and climate conditions and 70% of the world’s telescopes, Chile tru...

The brightest stellar explosion seen since 1604 still has secrets to reveal, and NASA’s newest telescope is just getting started.

See the latest and newest full colour images of space, galaxies and nebulae captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.

The James Webb Space Telescopes image of Supernova 1987A, located 168,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy that contains the solar system and the Earth.