The European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra space telescopes captured the aftermath of three bright explosions echoing in the Milky Way’s outer spiral arms. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand the fainter components of our Milky Way galaxy—the gas and dust scattered between stars, known as the interstellar medium. Scientists can also gain insight into the ages, masses, and sizes of stars using the Kepler space telescope, which provided asteroseismic data on approximately 16,000 stars before its decommissioning in 2018. A laser star pointer mounted on Cerro Pachón in central Chile points upward across the Gemini South observatory’s field of view, illuminating the Milky Way.