Earth and space mingle in stunning ways for the 2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest. From the “geological masterpiece” of Coyote Buttes, Utah to the sandstone terrain of desolate Ennedi, ...

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op ...

The EHT managed to image the black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy, Sagittarius A* ... perhaps even enabling high-resolution movies showing changes in the photon ring around a black ...

Photographer Petr Horálek observed both a lunar eclipse and a galaxy of stars from the the US National Science Foundation’s ...

The winners of the 2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest ... curates the annual list based on image quality, the story behind the shot and the overall inspiration it provides.

The Milky Way ... of high-energy charged particles. As plasma spirals around the black hole, its accelerating particles emit radio waves. The blurry orange ring seen in the images are an elaborate ...

The makeup of the first-of-its-kind neutrino-based image of the Milky Way Galaxy uses particles of matter instead of the usual electromagnetic energy. The mammoth IceCube Neutrino Observatory detects ...

But, the new search revealed hundreds of neutrinos that appear to come from the plane of the Milky Way. Turned into an image, it shows the areas of our galaxy that are producing high-energy neutrinos.

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way in shape ... "pure parallel," which allows it to collect high-quality images of one object whilst also collecting ...

A new telescope image showcases two entangled galaxies that will eventually merge into one millions of years from now — and previews the eventual, similar fate of our own Milky Way galaxy.The ...

An image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, which scientists think ... perhaps even enabling high-resolution movies showing changes in the photon ring ...