Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine select star-forming areas in the Extreme Outer Galaxy in near- ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...

Scientists have created the largest mosaic image of a galaxy 2.5 million lightyears away. The Andromeda Galaxy, our closest ...

Explore NASA’s top 10 rare and stunning galaxy images, showcasing vibrant interactions, cosmic collisions, and star-forming ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

NASA captured this stunning image of Messier 75 or M75, also known as NGC 6864, which is a giant globular cluster of stars in the southern constellation Sagittarius.

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