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Our Sun is actually a cosmic refugee. Around 4.6 billion years ago, it first ignited in a hostile, radiation-blasted neighborhood 10,000 light-years closer to the Milky Way’s center than it is now.

The supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A* lies in the middle of the Milky Way. Observations of S2 and other stars also helped astronomers calculate the extraordinary size and mass of ...

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is home to multiple wonders. There is our biggest star, VY Canis Majoris, the column-like structures known as the Pillars of Creation, and, in the middle of it all, a ...

Preface -- Earth Is but a Speck -- Celestial Neighborhood. Bedazzled by a Comet -- To Be...or Not to Be a Planet -- The Watery Allure of Mars -- Rings, Rings, Rings -- The Baffling White Dwarf Star -- ...

May 30 (UPI) --A new European study out Monday throws into question conventional wisdom that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are on a collision course that will take out our galaxy and the solar ...

Our solar system's famous "invader" might be as old as the Milky Way itself.