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 ...

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, ...

Every new generation of eyes sees a new version of our galaxy, the Milky Way. This Impressionistic swirl of color represents the churning magnetic fields in giant dust clouds near the center of ...

A color rendition of the visible Milky Way galaxy (top) compared with the range of the galactic underworld (bottom). University of Sydney Peering past the veil, what they found was certainly ...

The oldest representation of the night sky and our Milky Way galaxy was found in an Egyptian sarcophagus, revealing ancient ...

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

A camera that allows you to take long-exposure photos can pick up more colors and detail. If you want to see the Milky Way, you’ll also need to move away from light pollution that is present in ...

A solid 20 to 30 minutes will be enough time to adjust, bringing out the colors and fainter objects in the sky. Finally, look toward the south. The core of the Milky Way lies in the direction of ...