It seemed that these redshifted galaxies were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble’s results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was moving away from Earth. Hubble got ...

One of the largest galaxies ever found, the behemoth is about 1.44 billion light-years away and reckoned to be 32 times the size of our Milky Way ... in the background. The giant galaxy was ...

At double the width of our Milky Way galaxy, this jet of radio waves is ... until now — because of the obscuring cosmic microwave background left over from the Big Bang.

A - Clusters bright blue stars embedded within the galaxy, background galaxies seen much farther away, and photobombing by a couple bright foreground stars that are actually inside our Milky Way B ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets ... They found that this background radiation was 1 million to 10 million ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy home to 100-400 billion stars (no one is quite sure how many). It’s a spiral galaxy estimated to be about 13.6 billion years old. It's 100,000 light-years across.

The Andromeda galaxy ... but there was no data to support this hypothesis. Island universes referred to the idea that there could be enormous stellar systems outside the Milky Way—but ...