In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the evening this spring to observe one of ...

A bright star located about 10,000 light-years from Earth overlaps with the bright core of a more distant galaxy, NGC 5530, which is located 40 million light-years from Earth. | Credit ...

Additionally, NGC 4941 hosts an active galactic nucleus with a supermassive black hole, which affects its surroundings through radiation and jets, impacting star formation and galaxy evolution.

This week’s first target is NGC 3227. It shines at magnitude 10.3 and measures 6.9′ by 5.4′. You’ll find this object and its companion, the magnitude 11.4 elliptical galaxy NGC 3226 ...

The galaxy, NGC 5530, is located 40 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Lupus. The Hubble Space Telescope captured a new image of NGC 5530, which is classified as a flocculent ...