It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy ...

Arizona is an ideal spot to see the Milky Way thanks to its numerous dark-sky places. Here's the best time to see - and photograph - the Milky Way.

If we lived in the core of the Milky Way, we would see up to one million times more stars in the night sky. There, the crowding of stars is so dense that the typical spiral structure of the galaxy ...

“Long-exposure photos make the Milky Way’s bright stars and dark dust clouds even clearer. And while our eyes see it in visible light, NASA telescopes observe the galaxy across the spectrum ...

The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.

“The Milky Way’s core is the heart of our home galaxy,” West says. “It’s packed with stars, gas and dust, making it the most vibrant part of the Milky Way.” ...

Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short Milky Way season lasts Published: Jul 3, 2025 Stephanie Vermillion ...

The galactic core of the Milky Way can be seen in our skies, but only during certain times of the year. Experts say that the best time to view the Milky Way in the higher latitudes of the Northern ...

While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for stargazers to catch a glimpse of the band of billions of stars comprising our galaxy. When it’s ...

Leaving the galaxy far enough to photograph it is a whole different undertaking for a species that has not yet left the Solar System. "To get [images of the Milky Way] a spacecraft would have to ...

What you’re looking at is the bright central core of our home galaxy, seen edge-on, from our position within the galaxy’s disk.” It might seem confusing that we can see the Milky Way whilst ...