"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

In this special Hubble image 23 years in the making, the sparkling spiral galaxy UGC 10043 reveals the secrets of its ...

With images from the Hubble Space Telescope, we have new information here in the Milky Way about our closest neighboring ...

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with ...

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 ...

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"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...

Dive into a celestial masterpiece with the Hubble Space Telescope's latest snapshot of the Large Magellanic Cloud, showcasing ...

Surrounded by glowing discs of swirling gas, quasars emit immense light that can be seen across vast cosmic distances.

That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd ...

Quasars are distant galaxies with supermassive black ... "The biggest surprise was seeing the distinct spiral shape in the Hubble Space Telescope images. At first I was worried I had made an ...