Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos to showcase over 200 million stars.
This image of the Andromeda Galaxy, captured by the Herschel Space Observatory, reveals a detailed view of cool lanes of star formation.
Around 50 million years ago, a blue dwarf galaxy shot through the center of an enormous galaxy more than twice the size of ...
Astronomers trace the striking pattern to an encounter between a big galaxy and a much smaller one some 50 million years ago.
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the ...
The Hubble Space Telescope’s latest stunning images have allowed scientists to solve the mystery of the Bullseye Galaxy’s ...
Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...
STARGAZERS are in for a treat this month as a rare planet parade falls in Andromeda galaxy season. “One of the best planet ...
Watchers of the Connecticut skies should be able to watch the planets line up for 'parade' in February, and the start of ...
Imad Pasha, the lead researcher and a doctoral student at Yale University called it a "serendipitous discovery" because it ...