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M11 is best viewed in the hours between sunset and midnight in August, when the cluster can be found roughly 40 degrees above ...
Malorie Thorson became the 72nd Princess Kay of the Milky Way on Wednesday, the eve of the 2025 Minnesota State Fair.
Ursa Major III/Unions 1 (UMa3/U1), the faintest known satellite of our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more ...
The center of the Milky Way, which Dyches refers to as "the core," became visible in June and is expected to shine every ...
The Milky Way is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky throughout the United States, ...
When is the best time to see the Milky Way in Texas? Here's a list of the best times and places to see our galaxy.
The center of our Milky Way galaxy is the latest in a series of stunning cosmic phenomena that should be visible in August ...
New evidence suggests that a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way called Ursa Major III is actually a star cluster.
Ursa Major III, once considered a dark-matter-dominated dwarf galaxy, may actually be a dense star cluster. New research suggests its gravity is maintained by a core of black holes and neutron stars, ...
A 20-year-old college student from Wright County was crowned the 72nd Princess Kay of the Milky Way during a coronation ...
Malorie Thorson, who grew up on a dairy farm in rural Wright County, was crowned the 72nd Princess Kay of the Milky Way on ...