NASA has released a stunning image of the central region of the Milky Way, showing a collection of objects including a supermassive black hole weighing 4 million times the mass of the sun (Sagittarius A*) and clouds of gas at temperatures of millions of degrees. The image was created with Chandra data, radio data from the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa, which will eventually become part of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA). Other objects in the image include neutron stars and white dwarf stars tearing material from companion stars.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare “peculiar galaxy” called NGC 772, twice the size of the Milky Way. The galaxy is located 130 million light years away and does not have a bar, unlike the Milky way which is a barred galaxy. This unusual shape is caused by the movements of a nearby satellite galaxy, which is gravitationally bound to a larger galaxy and orbits around it. However, observations suggest these galaxies may be moving too fast to be in orbit around our galaxy, leading to a potential collision that could cause the black hole at the centre of our galaxy to increase in size. Last week, the Hubble telescope also captured images of three solar eclipses simultaneously on Jupiter.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed that a galaxy, Messier 90, is accelerating towards our Milky Way, a sign that the universe is expanding. The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA operates the Hubble telescope have revealed that Messier is one of the few galaxies seen to be travelling towards the Milky Way. The galaxy is currently located roughly 60 million light-years from the Earth, but is rapidly increasing its distance. This shift towards the blue end of the visible spectrum is seen as a process known as redshift. Astronomers believe this redshift is evidence that galaxies are flying away from each other, and the further apart they are, the faster they move. If Messier continues to move, there is a potential collision between the two galaxies, but this does not necessarily predict any outcomes.

The Milky Way galaxy appears to be expanding faster than the speed of sound, according to a study by Cristina Martínez-Lombilla, a PhD candidate at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in Tenerife, Spain. The study, presented at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool, revealed that newly formed stars are forming on the remote edges of the cluster. If you could travel forward in time and see the galaxy in 3 billion years, it would be about fiver percent bigger than today. The Milky Way is a 100,000 lightyear wide spiral galaxy estimated to contain 100–400 billion stars and is named after its milky colouration.

The European Space Agency Gaia satellite has captured images of the Blue Ring Nebula, a phase that occurs after the merger of two stars. The red supergiant star Betelgeuse in Orion experienced unprecedented dimming in 2019, according to these images. The image was taken using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in January. An infrared image of Apep, a Wolf-Rayet star binary system 8,000 light-years from Earth, also captured. An artist's illustration shows an unusual star system, GW Orionis, whose system's circumstellar disk is broken, resulting in misaligned rings around its three stars. This image also shows a simulation of two spiral black holes merging and emitting gravitational waves.