The Milky Way is one of billions of galaxies in the universe and home to our own solar system. It appears as a hazy band in the sky when viewed from Earth.
The Milky Way got its name from the way it looks from the ground: like a streak of spilt milk across the sky. That hazy white band is made up of stars, dust and gas. It looks like a flat stripe ...
In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope conducted a remarkable experiment by focusing for 10 straight days on a seemingly empty, dark patch of sky near the Big Dipper, roughly the size of a pinhead held ...