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 ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

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

Since Hubble’s launch, astronomers have discovered over 1 trillion galaxies, but Andromeda stands out as the closest and most ...

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

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

Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...

The discovery was made by Imad Pasha, a doctoral student at Yale University, who stumbled upon the unique galaxy while examining a ground-based imaging survey. "This ...

Arp 282: This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope feels incredibly three-dimensional for a piece of deep-space ...

Andromeda galaxy in its entirety in the largest photomosaic ever made by the Hubble Space Telescope. | Credit: NASA, ESA, Benjamin F. Williams (UWashington), Zhuo Chen (UWashington), L.