Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Scientists predict Andromeda and the Milky Way will collide in about 4.5 billion years—reshaping the night sky forever!.

What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan ...

Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...

A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...

Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos ...

While Andromeda, the closest galaxy to our Milky Way ... The image took the Hubble telescope over 1,000 orbits around Earth and combines about 600 separate fields of view. It is so detailed ...

Uranus and Neptune are never visible to the naked eye, as they are simply too far away from Earth. Stargazers will have the chance to see the Andromeda galaxy, our closest galactic neighbour 2 ...