How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

Many constellations are well-known for having one very special deep-sky object within their borders, something so famous that ...

Using variable stars as distance markers and the giant telescope on Mount Wilson, Edwin Hubble (then a young and little-known astronomer) was able to show that the Andromeda Nebula was over a ...

NGC 3627: This spiral galaxy is located in constellation Leo ... reveals the giant planet's trademark Great Red Spot. Andromeda Galaxy: The nearest cosmic neighbor of our Milky Way galaxy ...

A few points, however, are hardly brought up to date. For example, the spectrum of the Andromeda nebula is said to be “a faint continuous band of light” (p. 462), although it is now definitely ...

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Andromeda’s father, King Cepheus (a house-shaped constellation near Cassiopeia) consulted the oracle. He learnt the only ...

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 ...

November’s major meteor shower ramps up as the Moon reaches perigee shortly before its Full phase in the sky this week.

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

The key to settling the debate about the organization of the universe turned out to be a fuzzy object that had been observed and cataloged by many observers (including William Herschel) called the ...

(SUBMITTED PHOTO) The best way to find the Andromeda Galaxy is to locate the constellation Andromeda the Princess, attached to the constellation Pegasus the Winged Horse in the early evening high ...