For many observers, the Milky Way’s prime attraction is the northern galactic bulge from the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud up to the territory of Aquila the Eagle. Northern Hemisphere observers ...

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is a spiral galaxy with a disk of stars spanning more than 100,000 light-years. Check out ...

Never visible from large cities with their lights ... perhaps a better name would be the "Smoky Way?" The Sagittarius Star Cloud, about 30,000 light years distant, seems to be the nucleus ...

noting its appearance in 1764 as “a large nebulosity in which there are many stars of different magnitudes.” M24 was later christened the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud, but that is not accurate.

is one of the richest star fields in the whole sky -- the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud. The huge number of stars that light up this region dramatically emphasise the blackness of dark clouds like ...

A 7-foot telescope at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla location took a photo of the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud in the constellation of Sagittarius. Advertisement The cloud is one of ...

Occupying 867 square degrees, Sagittarius is the largest constellation ... including the Lagoon Nebula (M8 or NGC 6523), a large interstellar cloud about 50 by 110 light-years in dimension.

That led to an unexpected discovery: many of these stars do not trace back to Sagittarius A* at all. Instead, their trajectories suggest they came from the Large Magellanic Cloud. “We find that half ...

New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...

The test showed that over time, Sagittarius lost about one-third of its stars. The stars ... based telescope in Chile to study the Large Magellanic Cloud, another satellite galaxy of the Milky ...