Astronomers have unveiled the largest-ever photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, a sprawling celestial giant with over 1 ...
The New Year starts with a bang as Quandrantids peaks on Jan. 2 and 3. This is one of the largest meteor showers of the year, ...
BAE Systems built both the spacecraft bus and telescope for the observatory, in addition to leading spacecraft integration ...
Messier 31 is located 2.5 million light-years away from Earth and was a much bigger target in the sky than the galaxies ...
The work has revealed that Andromeda is a lot more chaotic than expected. Similar to what recently retired Gaia did for the Milky Way, Hubble spotted the hallmarks of a past collision: the presence of ...
The “ghost towns,” named Sculptor A, B, and C, consist of three faint and ultra-faint galaxies about 6.5 million light-years ...
As one of the last remaining areas in South Wales with truly dark skies, Gower National Landscape will be protected from ...
Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park in Okeechobee, Florida, is a hidden gem renowned for its pristine dark skies, making it ...
Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.
In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has more than 150 known globular clusters; these objects are excellent tools for studying, for ...
The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble ...
Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...