Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...
Our night sky is a thrilling window into the cosmos – and learning what’s up there doesn’t have to be complicated ...
All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...
High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.
The result is an impressive panorama, revealing approximately 200 million stars and extending six times the apparent diameter ...
Panorama of Nearest Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars On a crisp, clear autumn night, you can see the most distant object visible to the naked eye — the stunning Andromeda Galaxy, our Milky ...
The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...
A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...
Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...
For years, Arlene Jurewicz-Leighton taught online courses for science educators. She noticed that her home in Lincolnville ...
In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...
Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...