Some 2,500 stars are located in the greater Rosette Nebula, which is some 5,200 light-years away in our Milky Way galaxy. Nebulae are vital engines in the cosmos, as they host clouds of dust and gas ...

In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the legendary space telescope’s launch, here are 35 of our favorite images it has ...

Miguel Claro, an astrophotographer, spent five years capturing a stunning image of the Andromeda Galaxy from Portugal's Dark ...

Some images make you stop and wonder ... NGC 346 sits inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Located nearly 200,000 light-years away, it lies in the constellation ...

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner. Analysis of cosmological simulations published in Nature Astronomy reveal ...

The Sombrero galaxy shines in a new mid-infrared image, revealing a smooth inner disk and intricate clumps in its outer ring. A pulsar wind nebula resembles a ghostly hand in a composite image ...

China's Wide Field Survey Telescope has captured an amazing view of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central Television (CCTV) | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

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The team behind this discovery speculates that this gas could eventually become the hot, diffuse gas called the intracluster medium (ICM) that has been seen filling mature galaxy clusters.

P2 corresponds to the position of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Andromeda galaxy. Image Credit: DiKerby, Zhang, & Irwin 2025, ApJ Every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole, ...