Astronomers have observed the detailed motions of giant gas bubbles on the surface of a nearby star for the first time, which rise and fall like the inside of a lava lamp. The massive hot gas bubbles ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers spotted giant bubbles on the surface of a huge red-giant star, showing for the first ...

The center of the Milky Way is a busy place. The galaxy's core is bustling with a supermassive black hole, the birth of thousands of stars, and their explosive deaths. And now, a team of astronomers ...

Newly discovered lobes stretch tens of thousands of light-years above and below the Milky Way's disk. Where did they come from? On a clear night, away from city lights, you might see a beautiful ...

Mysterious cosmic bubbles are being seen in a new light. For the first time, scientists have observed visible light from the Fermi bubbles, enormous blobs of gas that sandwich the plane of the Milky ...

Discoveries keep bubbling up at the center of the Milky Way. Colossal bubbles emanate from this spot, spitting out radio waves detected with the help of a new telescope. The structures are a sign of a ...

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Farhad Yusef-Zadeh was observing the center of the Milky Way galaxy in radio waves, looking for the presence of faint stars, when he saw it: a spindly structure giving off its own radio emissions. The ...

A pair of NASA spacecraft on a decades-long journey in deep space have found a "big surprise": Giant magnetic bubbles churning near the outer edges of our solar system. (See an image below.) Here, a ...