Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

Astrophotographer Ron Brecher has captured a stunning deep sky image of the spiral galaxy M106, located 23.5 million light ...

Once mistaken for a fuzzy star cluster, the stunning Squid Galaxy—formally known as Messier 77—has transformed in the eyes of ...

they give a tantalizing look at SPHEREx's wide view of the sky. Each bright spot is a source of light, like a star or galaxy, and each image is expected to contain more than 100,000 detected sources.

"Sometimes, images will capture objects that appear close to each other in the sky ... distant spiral galaxy. It has a protruding central bulge, shown in blue, where older stars reside.

and ever since it has fascinated astronomers and star watchers. So for this month’s Sky at Night we have declared June 1st Whirlpool Galaxy Day. On this one day we will be aiming as many ...