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May 2025 offers some spectacular celestial sights, from a bright comet and a meteor shower to a full Flower Moon. Here’s what ...

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way ...

Tomb art suggests the sky goddess Nut from ancient Egypt might reveal the oldest depiction of our galaxy.

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In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

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The cloud, named Eos, is chock-full of molecular hydrogen and possibly rife with star-forming potential in the future.