The image captures the glowing ribbon of the galactic plane, where the vast majority of the Milky Way's stars are concentrated.

The center of the Milky Way, which is referred to as "the core," is best visible beginning in June across the Northern Hemisphere, when it's "visible as a faint band of hazy light arching across the sky all night, according to NASA scientist Preston Dyches.

Elon Musk reacted to NASA’s stunning Milky Way image captured by the Artemis II crew after a historic lunar flyby. Resharing the post, Musk wrote, “One day, we will be out there,” as the mission marks a major step toward future human exploration of deep space.

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray Telescope team.

The new study, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, argues that an ultra-compact dark matter core can explain both

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda ...

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC