Milky Way

The Hubble telescope celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. The astronomical crowd favorite was launched on April 24, 1990, exactly 30 years ago. Although the stargazer had many start-up problems, it definitely changed our view of the…

The Parker Solar Probe was launched a year ago with the aim of studying the solar wind, among other things. NASA has published images of the solar wind made by the probe during its first "encounter" with the sun.A short NASA video shows…

A group of French amateur photographers has captured an impressive 204-megapixel image of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, at the El Sauce observatory it runs in Chile. The combined shutter speed is 1060…

Astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope, a global partnership with a network of radio telescopes, showed the first image of a black hole at a European Commission press conference. It is Messier 87*, or M87*, in the Virgo…

The American space agency NASA plans to place a new telescope in space in 2023. It concerns a space telescope that will, among other things, collect data from the first moments in the history of the universe.NASA says that a budget of 242…

Astronomers have accidentally discovered a dwarf galaxy in our 'cosmic backyard' using the Hubble Space Telescope. The dwarf galaxy is 'only' thirty million light-years from the Milky Way.The discovered dwarf galaxy is nicknamed Bedin 1…

Apple has ordered a series of ten video episodes based on Isaac Asimov's Foundation books. The order is part of Apple's plans to compete with Netflix and Amazon Prime Video with its own content.Skydance Television will produce the…

According to calculations and estimates by the scientists behind the recently-commissioned Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, this space telescope can identify 10,000 exoplanets during its primary two-year mission.In a publication, the…

The European Space Agency has released a 3D map showing about 1.7 billion stars. The data comes from the Gaia satellite, which has a large camera on board and has been gazing into the universe for years.On its website, the ESA explains…

Astrophysicists think that there are tens of thousands of black holes at the centre of our galaxy. This hypothesis is based on the probable discovery of a dozen smaller black holes around the enormous black hole in the centre of the Milky…