This magnificent 360-degree panoramic image ... of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, which we see edge-on from our perspective on Earth, cuts a luminous ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way—the magnificent ... Video tour of Hubble’s panoramic view of the Andromeda galaxy.