Every constellation has something within its borders worth tracking down, if you just look hard enough. Here are five to ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy under the "ram pressure" inside a massive cluster of galaxies.

Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

It is a majestic spiral-shaped galaxy, similar to our Milky Way, but containing many more stars. The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to our own. (We do have closer neighbor galaxies ...

(credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Steve Finkelstein (UT Austin)) The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy only about 1,000 light-years thick at the spiral arms and more at the bulge). Recent simulations ...

ESA/Euclid Consortium/NASA et al / SWNS A panoramic mosaic, which has been enlarged 600 times, highlights the structures of a spiral galaxy ... the stars of the Milky Way as well.

The blood-like hue of the image is owed to a combination of mid-infrared light from Webb with visible and ultraviolet light ...

the larger spiral galaxy at right. Both have increased star formation rates. Combined, they are estimated to form the equivalent of two dozen new stars that are the size of the Sun annually. Our Milky ...

The spiral arms of nearby galaxy Messier 81 is captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This galaxy is easily visible ...

Oct. 31, 2024 — For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful ...