Galactic Fireworks
Fireworks from a modest galaxy
On the human time scale, the Milky Way galaxy is eternal. The starry Milky Way shined down on the first
The most beautiful galaxies are called spirals. The Milky Way is a spiral, and so is the Andromeda galaxy (M31).
Astronomer Edwin Hubble was studying an object in the autumn constellation Andromeda known as the Andromeda Nebula. Viewed through a
The Milky Way’s disk spans at least 100,000 light-years and probably contains several hundred billion stars, which makes our home
Quite a few. Most estimates place the number of galaxies at around 100 billion. Most of those galaxies are little