A strange object, ASKAP J1935+2148, baffles scientists. It emits radio waves and X-rays every 44 minutes. Australian and NASA telescopes spotted it. The object is 15,000 light-years away. It ...

THERE’S some real stars quality in the nightscapes nominated for the annual Milky Way Photographer of the Year.  Photos taken from space, Chile and the US are all in the running for the ...

Our solar system exists in the Orion Spur between the Sagittarius and Perseus arms. For more sublime space images, check out our Space Photo of the Week archives. Like this article? For more ...

It also features a dense region known as the central bar. Our solar system lies on a more modest structure called the Orion spur. However tangled the question of our metaphorical place in the ...

They’re part of a chain of star-forming regions stretching along the Perseus spiral arm of our galaxy (for context, we live in the Orion Spur, which is between the Perseus arm and the Scutum ...

Our status as milk-producing mammals would not be lost on intelligent aliens studying the history of our astronomy. The ancient Greeks, they would learn, described a milkiness in the night sky.

The Sun circles the hub of our Milky Way just as a planet circles a star. It orbits about 26,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy, on the Orion Spur that shoots off from the Sagittarius ...

in one of the spiral arms known as the Orion Arm or Orion Spur. The Milky Way rotates, with stars in the disk orbiting the galactic centre. The speed of rotation varies with distance from the centre.

Two minor spiral arms are close to the galaxy's center, the Far-3 kiloparsec arm and the Near-3 kiloparsec arm. Our solar system exists in the Orion Spur between the Sagittarius and Perseus arms.