Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way's satellite ...
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 ...
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...
Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...
Island universes referred to the idea that there could be enormous stellar systems outside the Milky Way – but astronomers now just call these systems galaxies. In 1920, astronomers Harlow ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy, named UGC 10043. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope ...
The open cluster Trumpler 14 contains some of the most massive and bright stars in our galaxy, and it is located 8,000 light-years away. This entire group is NGC 1858, an open star cluster located in ...
The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...