The MeerKAT radio telescope has produced a stunning mosaic of the Milky Way’s central regions, providing a new view of known and newly-discovered phenomena.
Looking into the bulge of the Milky Way, the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a dynamic sea of stars made up of different generations, velocities and histories.
Peering into the heart of the Milky Way with a powerful infrared camera, astronomers see evidence for a titanic burst of star formation in the relatively recent past.
A new look at the central regions of the Milky Way, captured by the Murchison Widefield Array in Australia, has revealed 27 previously unknown supernova remnants.
Globular clusters are favourite targets for amateur astronomers, vast star swarms that date back to just after the big bang birth of the cosmos. NGC 6397 is one of the closest, as revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
A collision between the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud in about 1.5 billion years likely will re-energize the supermassive black hole lurking in our galaxy’s core.