Milky Way

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Hubble Peers Into the Heart of the Milky Way Galaxy - NASA Science
Peering deep into the dusty heart of our Milky Way galaxy using infrared vision, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals a rich tapestry of more than half a million stars. Except for a few blue foreground stars, the stars are part of the Milky Way’s nuclear star cluster, the most massive and densest star cluster in our galaxy.
Hubble's Journey to the Center of Our Galaxy - NASA Science
Milky Way Viewed From the International Space Station - NASA
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman captured this image from the International Space Station and posted it to social media on Sept. 28, 2014, writing, "The Milky Way steals the show from Sahara sands that make the Earth glow orange."
Charting the Milky Way From the Inside Out
Tracing the Arms of our Milky Way Galaxy
Astronomers Discover Dizzying Spin of the Milky Way Galaxy’s “Halo”
Astronomers at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) discovered for the first time that the hot gas in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning in the same direction and at comparable speed as the galaxy's disk, which contains our stars, planets, gas, and dust.
360-Degree View of the Milky Way
This video shows a continually-looping infrared view of our Milky Way galaxy, as seen by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
X Marks the Spot for Milky Way Formation
A new understanding of our galaxy's structure began in an unlikely way: on Twitter.
Milky Way vs. Andromeda
Cartoon drawing of two children looking into the night sky with a white galaxy and stars all around